La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia

ما يرفع من شأن الصورة هو الحب .. الحب المفرط________ رولان بارت الفيلسوف الفريد من نوعهفي غرفته المضيئة شديدة التميزهنا سنرى الصورة تحت الأضواء الكاشفةأضواء بارت .. وليس سواه *******هو "أنا " الذى لا يتطابق أبدا مع صورتىلأن الصورة هي التي تبدو ثقيلة..ساكنة..عنيدة وهو "أنا" الذى أبدو خفيفا منقسما مش Leggi tutto

For Barthes, every photograph, rather than being a representation, is an expression of loss. The photograph, like all art which precedes it, attempts to eternalize its subject, to imbue it with life-forever, to blend the beautiful with the infinite; but it fails, it reminds us only of mortality ( dea Leggi tutto

What has always terrified me about photography is, as Barthes puts it (since I never could, not before this book anyway,) the infinite reproduction of a singular event. Evanescent instances that would have normally escaped my own memories, are now confined within a frame. A part of my existence that Leggi tutto

I'd never thought much about Barthes method until I read Sara Ahmed's book Queer Phenomenology in which she draws attention to the labour that enables Husserl to sit and think at his table; the work of childcare and table clearing performed, probably, by women. Ahmed has inspired me to ask what Bart Leggi tutto