![]() ![]() The "community" of images Barthes attempts to distinguish Photography from includes Film, or Cinema, and Painting. The "thing" Barthes hopes to arrive at is alternately called photography's eidos or noeme it is what essentially differentiates Photography from other images. ![]() Because of a "desperate resistance to any reductive system," Barthes chooses to begin his investigation by focusing on photographs that "exist" for him consequently, he takes himself as "mediator for all Photography (8)." Despite this highly personal approach, Barthes ultimately strives to arrive at "the thing which is seen by anyone looking at a photograph and which distinguishes it in his eyes from any other image (60)." He writes, "I was overcome by an 'ontological' desire: I wanted to learn at all costs what Photography was 'in itself,' by what essential feature it was to be distinguished from the community of images (3)." If Barthes motivation is personal in nature, so is his methodology. In the opening pages of Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes clearly states what motivated his investigation of photography. ![]()
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