As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
ROLAND BARTHES
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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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We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
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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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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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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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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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Language is never innocent.
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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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