Quotes by Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

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[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can fla — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they sa — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but be — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by for — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The neces — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ul — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the co — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it d — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perh — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Liv — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the co — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobi — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the e — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the master — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider th — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography