![]() ![]() There are photographs reproduced in the book. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture, one of the thousand manifestations of the ‘ordinary’ it cannot in any way constitute the visible object of a science it cannot establish an objectivity, in the positive sense of the term at most it would interest your studium: period, clothes, photogeny but in it, for you, no wound (73). ![]() I cannot reproduce the Winter Garden Photograph. He states that the image would only interest the reader in that it was an image taken in the past (studium), it wouldn’t have the emotional impact (punctum) that it does for him. (His mother died in 1977, Camera Lucida was published in 1980.) Barthes never reveals the image to the reader. In Camera Lucida, Barthes is inspired to write about photography by an image of his mother who recently passed. For one project I’ve started looking at articles and books on vernacular photography and have found Barthes mentioned several times. I’m researching the broad topic of photography for about three projects at the moment. ![]() I recently read Camera Lucida by Barthes on a train ride from Philly to Washington DC. 82 “Always the Photograph astonishes me, with an astonishment which endures and renews itself, inexhaustibly.” ![]()
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