"What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially" --Roland Barthes
One of our reading tasks was the short book "Camera Lucida" by Roland Barthes who was a French theorist and philosopher. She wrote the book in 1979, with the intention for it to be a reflection on photography, despite not being a photographer herself.
The book discusses a lot about the ideas of stadium and punctum. However, another key idea was the object of three practices (or emotions or intentions) . Barthes states the three practices as:
- to do: the operator or photographer
- to look: the spectator or us as viewers
- to undergo: the spectrum or subject/target
Overall, the book gives a good definition of photography shows good examples, and Roland does give some interesting points, however the book was criticised a lot due to the fact that he was never a photographer himself.
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