It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
ROLAND BARTHESEvery exploration is an appropriation.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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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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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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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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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
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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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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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