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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Roland Barthes

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
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Experience Fashion Past Present Refusal
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Desire Disappointment Pleasure Rival Truth
Thus every writer’s motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
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Design Myself Reading Writing
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.
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Reading Source Text Understand Work
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Afford Appearance Body Erotic Glimpse
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Fantasy Greatness Mythology Photography
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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Mouth Oneself Speaking Time Tongue
What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Bare Energy Love One Liner
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Existence Oneself Repeat Reproduction
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Community Family Instrument Television
The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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Forget Lover Memories Strain Time
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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Exploration Myself Photography Question Wound
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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Born Cost Death Reading
The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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