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Remember me on this computer. Does the photograph speak the truth or does it lie? Is it possible to create a new paradigm for photography to expand its visual language to include new developments in philosophy and technology? I discovered that his writing is complex, dense, ambiguous, and sometimes contradictory.
Camera Lucida incorporates many ideas from his prior works as well as oblique references to a broad range of poets, philosophers and academics from many disciplines.
It is a very personal, emotional and curious work; it is concerned with ontology, discovering the eidos, the essential nature of photography, and the death and resurrection of the mother, memory and mourning. The dead boat project became a meta-metaphor for my exploration of death, time and memory and philosophy through the lens of Camera Lucida.
Could I bring something new to our understanding of Camera Lucida and the field of photography philosophy? I am not an academic but a lawyer and a photographer; perhaps my background could bring new insights.
This book is a record of my discoveries on my journey into death, time and memory and Camera Lucida; it is both a homage and a criticism. Barthes has given me the freedom to bring my subjective and personal desires, emotions and experiences into my work. I have written both from the head and the heart. Barthes was not a photographer even though he wrote extensively on photography.
Barthes was not a Buddhist even thought he wrote extensively on Buddhism. Like Barthes my mother is dead but, unlike Barthes, I have let her go. I am not searching to resurrect my mother through photography. As a photographer and a Buddhist my concerns are different. I want to break through the photographic cliche that photography is inevitably tied to the past like a fly in the amber and to discover a new paradigm for photography, one inspired by philosophy and technology.
I want to understand what the photograph is actually showing us. I want to understand the genesis of my desire to take photographs. I want to understand whether photography may be a spiritual practice that can change the consciousness of the photographer and help realize Buddha mind. At the end of Part One he reaches a dead end. He recants Part One and writes Part Two as his palinode. He abandons his quest, and the book evolves into a novella of memory and mourning, with interstices of philosophy, over the death of his mother.
In Camera Lucida Barthes sets up many binaries: ode and palinode, studium and punctum, mad and tame, seen and unseen, form and emptiness, life and death, illusion and reality. He gave us a beautiful, complex and fascinating work of art but we are left many unanswered questions. This is quintessential Barthes. The universe is both dual and non-dual; it is both form and emptiness; it is both physical object and subtle energy; it is both reality and illusion.
Although the universe appears to be dualistic in our ordinary, relative perception, the absolute truth is that it is non-dual. The universe is one, not two, and our perception of it being comprised of binaries is a relative truth; it is an illusion.
Further, can it capture temporal states other than just the past, such as the timeless state or perhaps even the future? Advances in science have radically changed our understanding of time, light, matter and space. These are the new elements of photography. Photography has almost limitless potential. Science has enabled it to move far beyond simply being a camera that transcribes images of the forms of the world. We have captured the emptiness of a black hole, subatomic energies and light with cameras that can exposure trillions of frames a second.
Photography must capture both the dual and the non-dual world; it must capture both form and emptiness, reality and illusion, the mad and the tame, the vernacular and the sublime, life and death.
After my long journey into Camera Lucida, Barthes and photography philosophy, what have I learned? The camera creates images of death, time and memory; we see these elements in almost every photograph. There is always the passage of time, there is always memory, there is always death. Death, time and memory are interdependent; they are inseparable, they are the three sides of the triangle of existence. Time is death and memories are bound to time.
Whether or not the against the colloquial English word 5hot, the latter forever marked for subject is already dead," adds Barthes, "every photograph is this catas- me to the point that I never use the phrase "to take a shot.
Is it because of the family mythology hidden behind those old photo- For Barthes, the light that reaches the Spectator literally resurrects graphs of my grandparents, those "patches" my mother showed me the referent from flat death. In photographs of relatives, the rays re- when I was little? Barthes sees the equation between resemblance and identity as my grandfather mysteriously disappeared.
Rumor had tt that he, along "an absurd, purely legal, even penal affair" CL, Skeptical about with other officers, had been taken prisoner by the Nazis. For seven his mother's likeness, he finds "the splendor of her truth" only in the months my grandmother made trips to Lublin's Castle, which had been Winter Garden Photograph, "one which does not look 'like' her," the turned into a Nazi prison, to deliver food parcels to her husband.
O ne photograph of a child he never knew CL, My grandmother, fatally IOJUred, d1ed on new insights into the nature of that truth about his mother that Barthes Sunday,! July She was thirty-seven. Six months later, on 22Janu- has set out to find through this book. The photograph can only authen- ary , my grandfather unexpectedly reappeared. It turned out that ticate the existence of his mother before he could have possibly known all this time he had been in a labor camp in Russia.
He managed to es- her. Five days later, on Sunday, graph yet improbable I cannot prove it " CL, My mom found him traces what he calls "genetic features" and lineage in the photograph; shot, lying face down in the snow outside the house.
He was forty-five. The luminous rays soul, as it reduces her to a metaphor of his own experience. None of that emanate from the two faces engender punctum in me, not so much this could possibly have been experienced by any other spectator, who, by the referents themselves, as by the interfuit, the "this-has-beenness" of in viewing the Winter Garden Photograph, would have at best imparted what I apprehend.
Mter Roland Barthes, elements that produces desire in the reader who, deprived of the visual how else could I view these three photographs? The flat death of the photograph encodes at once the pastness of the Notes once-present moment and the click that "shot," "removed" that moment 1. For Barthes, p. Concerned mainly with political offenders, the NKVD used Its broad investigative and judicial powers to carry out Stalin's massive purges of the s.
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