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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

Roland Barthes

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
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Death Ourselves Photography Return
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Invisible Photograph See
To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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Food Moral Rare Representation
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
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Body Desire Life Love Myself
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not–this is the beginning of writing.
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Beginning Known Love Myself Writing
The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Creation Life Meaning
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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Patience Power Wait
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
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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Emotion Light Reserve Shadow
The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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Fashion Time Value
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
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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Construction Front Physical Symbolic
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
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
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Children Poem Poetry Reproduction Subject

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