Photography’s failure: an intermedial response to the phenomenological agenda in Roland Barthes’ camera lucida
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2019.v2i19.6652Keywords:
Photography, Phenomenology, Intermediality, Philosophy, Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes.Abstract
The aim of this article is to give account of the limitations of Roland Barthes theoretical proposal in order to analyze photography, in as much as this proposal is considered in the light of the phenomenological program of the French philosopher. Given the importance of Barthes's theory in the field of photography, we believe that these limitations are only perceptible if Barthes's program is read, , as we try to do in the present work, from an intermediary position, that is, analizing the relationship that photography—as a material representation of reality—presupposes and develops within its sourroundings some historical-mediatic instances that are in contradiction to the regional essences recognized by Barthes. Therefore, photography is presented as a supplement that seeks to materially fullfill reality. A supplement that, both in its constitution and its consequences, is based on a metaphysical substrate, namely, the absolute appearance or appearance as an absolute of the photographed object.
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