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.
ROLAND BARTHESIs not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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Every exploration is an appropriation.
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Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions.
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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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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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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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If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a “weakness” or an “absurdity”: it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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What love lays bare in me is energy.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
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Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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