Bright Room -- A Discussion on Photography

Author: Roland Barthes
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Publish Date: 2007-06-18
Features: As a realist, one of whom I am, I have already declared that photography is an image without connotation when those connotations clearly shift the interpretation of the photograph. I do not consider a photograph to be a "copy" of a real object but rather a "manifestation" of past realities. It is "magic," not art. Studying photography has a certain proof, and this proof is not aimed at the object but at time. From the phenomenological perspective, the proof of a photograph surpasses its expressiveness.