RHETOR 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Winter Garden, Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
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After mother"s death, going through some photographs (63) Found one photograph (winter garden photograph): something like an essence of the photograph floated in this particular picture (73) It would tell me what constituted the thread which drew me toward photography henceforth i must interrogate the evidence of photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death (73) Photographic referent is not the same as the referent of other systems of representation (76) Photographic referent = necessarily real thing which has been. Paintings can feign reality within having seen it , but in. Noeme of the photograph - its essence, that has been (76-77) What founds the nature of photography is the pose (78) placed before the lens, without which there is no photograph (76) photography you cannot deny that the thing was there (76)
