What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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aşk sıkıntısı erimez; ya katlanırsın, ya çıkıp gidersin: düzeltme olanaksızdır.
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A photograph's punctum is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me).
—Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida
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Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 9)
Part 8
Souvenirs
The past is dangerously addictive. Nostalgia, especially second-hand nostalgia such as mine, often threatens to become an endless placebo in place of living. How alluring the past seems when we convince ourselves of having experienced it for a brief moment through culture and art.
The ghost story writer M.R. James lived with this addiction to the past more than most.
James…
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“Life is thus made up of little solitudes.”
~ Roland Barthes,
from “Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography”
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shimeji simulation x a book I had to read twice in its entirety for two different classes. but it’s a banger so I didn’t mind
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“This longing to inhabit, if I observe it clearly in myself, is neither oneiric (I do not dream of some extravagant site) nor emperical (I do not intend to buy a house according to the views of a real-estate agency); it is fantasmatic, deriving from a kind of second sight which seems to bear me forward to a utopian time, or to carry me back to somewhere in myself...”
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
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Should I read the Roland Barthes book on photography? I keep seeing it referenced.
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Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
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Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumed as such, publicly.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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pelleas: "neyin var? mutsuz gibi görünüyorsun. — hayır, hayır, mutluyum, ama üzgünüm."
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2022/ 14 липня — День 141
До речі, цитата на Липень:
Як на мене, шум Часу не тужливий: я люблю дзвони, дзиґарі та годинник — я пригадую, що початково фотографічне приладдя було пов'язане з ремеслом меблярів та ремісників, які виготовляли точні механізми: камери за своєю суттю були годинниками для бачення, і можливо в глибині мене, хтось досить древній, досі чує в роботі фотографічного механізму живий шелест лісу.
— Ролан Барт «Camera Lucida. Нотування фотографії»
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Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 2)
Part 1
Histories
Polaroids are shackled to nostalgia. Its aesthetic perfectly embodies the past tense, especially in the cold light of today’s digital world. The presence captured, however, makes even the oldest photos whisper of the living moment as it happened. As an object, they are driven by this contradiction.
Being so close to our lives charges these images with supernatural static. But,…
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