My thoughts on Barthes’ Camera lucida are a bit hard to resolve, while I did find the book interest in its own right the Barthes depiction of photography as death disturbs me.
While I understand to make a good photograph is not simply taking a picture but actually has to be planned and prepared, camera lucida adds a theoretical approach to making a good photograph. Barthes explains that 3 characters measure the quality of photography, the operator, the spectator and the target. The author conflicts with this theory has he goes on looking for his on studium in photograph, that is the focus of the photograph.
The operator as implied by Barthes is the photographer, the person who takes the picture. Barthes states that the photographer most find …show more content…
Was the author trying to say that “The best punctum a photograph can achieve if its remind the spectators the inevitable of death” or “That a photograph that portraits through the mystery of a target is ominous as Death itself will be able to achieve punctum”? Again my own opinions of which am not sure are accurate. I am just lost, as goes on his morbid relation with photography with death. I couldn’t really tell whether his looking forward to die, or his fear of death his eating him alive. To even go and states in page 92 that all those young photographers who are at work in the world determine to capture the actuality of a target are unknowingly agents of …show more content…
I believe, Barthes was suffering from depression at the time and find it therapeutic with finding a punctum with photographs that can resonate with his wounds. To even influence his opinion on more recent photograph and reject society definition of high quality photograph because they didn’t show the tragedy of life or the likeness of life has he puts. Whatever the case may be, in my opinion it conflicts with his earlier synopsis in part one when he describes photography has a theory then in part two states unlike punctum studio has no code and would often look for his own studium in a photograph, sounds like someone looking for a reason to be
While I understand to make a good photograph is not simply taking a picture but actually has to be planned and prepared, camera lucida adds a theoretical approach to making a good photograph. Barthes explains that 3 characters measure the quality of photography, the operator, the spectator and the target. The author conflicts with this theory has he goes on looking for his on studium in photograph, that is the focus of the photograph.
The operator as implied by Barthes is the photographer, the person who takes the picture. Barthes states that the photographer most find …show more content…
Was the author trying to say that “The best punctum a photograph can achieve if its remind the spectators the inevitable of death” or “That a photograph that portraits through the mystery of a target is ominous as Death itself will be able to achieve punctum”? Again my own opinions of which am not sure are accurate. I am just lost, as goes on his morbid relation with photography with death. I couldn’t really tell whether his looking forward to die, or his fear of death his eating him alive. To even go and states in page 92 that all those young photographers who are at work in the world determine to capture the actuality of a target are unknowingly agents of …show more content…
I believe, Barthes was suffering from depression at the time and find it therapeutic with finding a punctum with photographs that can resonate with his wounds. To even influence his opinion on more recent photograph and reject society definition of high quality photograph because they didn’t show the tragedy of life or the likeness of life has he puts. Whatever the case may be, in my opinion it conflicts with his earlier synopsis in part one when he describes photography has a theory then in part two states unlike punctum studio has no code and would often look for his own studium in a photograph, sounds like someone looking for a reason to be