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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography $5.49 A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium. This groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida … |
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On Photography $7.72 Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism.One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinat… |
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What Photography Is $24.55 In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness–its apparently endless capacity to show us things … |
essay question on photography and digital images?
Digital images are often created almost entirely in the computer. are they “real” photography ? discuss with reference to the following statement:
“Every photograph is a certificate of presence.” Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida 1980
i don’t really know where to start – does anyone have any ideas or arguments?
thank you
ok, we take a photograph, we dev the film. and produce a print… evidential proof as it were, of our actions…
however, although one may see Digital media, there is nothing whatsoever for one to touch, to hold to feel or examine as it is merely an arrangement of photons, which, we can neither see, hold nor touch…
yet this article was written almost 30 years ago, and as such is an anachronistic relic from a world, where what we have today, was even then, unimaginable…
if a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? type argument..
and his affirmation that the image holds a fundamental truth is of course absolute rubbish… we have taken photoshop to another level. i can create original artworks… and unless i tell you, youll never see the joins… it used to be stated, a photograph can never lie… all i can say is thank goodness we have DNA… or there would be a whole lot of innocent people in jail…
is digital imagery art? of course it is…
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