photography degree zero reflections on roland barthes's camera lucida

photography degree zero reflections on roland barthes

An English translation of Barthes’ text was subsequently published in 1981 under the title Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. In the late spring of 1979, roughly a year and a half after the appearance of Benjamin’s essay in Nouvel Observateur, Roland Barthes completed a manuscript subsequently entitled La chambre claire: Note sur la photographie, which delineated his own critical approach to the medium of photography. Re-titled Les analphabetes de l’avenir, the essay was only the second translation of Benjamin’s Kleine Geschichte der Photographie to appear in French, with the original 1931 German version having been published in the Berlin periodical Die literarische Welt during the last years of the Weimar Republic.

In November of 1977, a French translation of Walter Benjamin’s, Little History of Photography was included in a special issue of the prominent Parisian magazine, Nouvel Observateur. In this review i also added the short description about Barthes photograph concept to Urbanism by finding the essence through urban element forming urban semiologics and deliver the example through photograph of urban space. He also distinguished the photograph into two elements, studium and punctum and through this two elements he started his journey to analyze and value his favorite photograph. Barthes put his position as a spectator in value the photograph, he found that the photograph is a message without a code, its certification of presence tools to experience time as a singular and repeatable event. The book consists of two parts, the first part mostly Barthes elaborate the concept of photography and taking some his favorite public photograph he likes as an object to be analyzed meanwhile at the second part he mostly express his emotion to his mother photograph and found the essence of photograph within. This book take 'Death“ as the idea of the photograph and 'The Return of Death' as the essence of the photograph. In photograph there can be a signifier however it needs deeper observation and reflection. This book is elaborate the concept of Photography according to Roland Barthes, he defined photography as an image that repeats what could be never repeated, and it's never distinguished from its referent.

Photography degree zero reflections on roland barthes's camera lucida