Bright Room: A Talk on Photography: A Talk on Photography

Author: Roland Barthes
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Realists, and I am one of them, when I assert that photography is an image without connotation, even when those connotations clearly shift the interpretation of the photograph, I am already a realist. I do not regard photographs as "copies" of real objects but rather as "manifestations" of past realities. It is "magic," not art. Studying photographs has a certain proof, and this proof is not aimed at objects but at time. From the phenomenological perspective, the proof of photographs surpasses their expressiveness.