![]() One of the most interesting points for me is the idea of “future anteriority,” the process by which a photograph of yourself separates you slightly from your sense of who you are, offering a new means of understanding through a medium that brings with it a level of instability. The book contains some provocative thoughts which are not explored in great depth but act as points of departure. ![]() Every photograph reduces a subject to being an object, a process that Barthes seems to find uncomfortable. One of the most interesting points for me is his take on what it means to sit for a portrait, and how this act of being captured in time is connected with our own mortality. Can we ever gain emotional distance from what we photograph, or is our engagement with the image-making process always going to make that level of separation impossible? Whatever the answer, it’s certainly interesting to come back to images after a year or two and see them with eyes that have been refreshed by the passage of time.Ĭamera Lucida is a staple in photography courses around the world, and as Windsor mentions, it’s important to note that Barthes himself was not a photographer - or at least, he was not known as one. Windsor delves into his archive and reflects on Barthes’ writing as means of questioning how we perceive our images. ![]()
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