![]() It is chance in a photograph that points at us, bruises us, grips us. The punctum, the most important in a photograph (when it exists), breaks the studium from the scene like an arrow, a sting, a wound, a punctuation. In this type of photography we find the photos of reports (which shock, which shout but do not hurt), and the pornographic photos (which present only one thing: sex). These photographs are then banal, naive, without intentions. ![]() If the studium is not crossed by something else (we will see the punctum), it generates a very widespread type of photography: the unary photography (only one sequence is generated by the base). The interest in a photo that has only the studium comes from a moral and political culture, it is an average affect, a general investment only. The studium: it corresponds to an expanse, similar to a field and refers to a classical information. ![]() These two contradictory elements are, The studium and The punctum. ![]() With the photo of the soldiers and nuns in Nicaragua, Barthes realizes that it is the duality between two elements that makes him appreciate this or that photo: it is the photo as an adventure. Operator, Spectator, Spectrum – Camera Lucida – Roland BarthesĬamera Lucida main keywords: Studium, punctum ![]()
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