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Roland Barthes

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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Himself Imagination Policy Politics Trouble
Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.
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Different Magic Sight Touch
I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Absence Myself Responsibility World
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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Character Consider Myself Novel
Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Mourning Myself Suffering
Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Fear Photography Scare Thinking
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
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Beyond Image Meaning
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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Notable Order Photography Sophistication Value
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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Hard Time Ourselves Suffering
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
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Children Death Fear Mom Myself Patient Photography
Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.
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Existence Language Man Position
Language is never innocent.
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Innocent Language One Liner
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
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
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Fun Life Myself Possible Pretty Professional
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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Better Burn Evaluation Kind Love
The photographic image is a message without a code.
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Code Image Message Photography

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