As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
ROLAND BARTHESI have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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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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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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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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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
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The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
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The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
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