Roland Barthes starts out by saying that a photograph is a message without a code. Nevertheless his short essay “The Photographic Message” (published in the book Image, Music, Text) offers also some very interesting reflections on visual images and what they tell us. Barthes’ work Camera Lucida – along with On Photography by Susan Sontag – is probably the most important book written about the nature image taking. His books and essays are standard reading in every university teaching photography as well as for every photographer looking for theoretical reference on the subject. Roland Barthes Roland Barthes and his concept of the photographic image as a message without a codeįrench thinker Roland Barthes is a classic author of modern philosophy about the nature of photography. “What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.”
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