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.
ROLAND BARTHESAs Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought?
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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