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Another book to reference

If I were to look for another book to read after Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, I would choose Flatland by Edwin Abbott. The overall question I am thinking might be explained over the course of the two books is how our perceptions of reality affect our mental states, especially our imaginations.

Citation #5

1. Ron Burnett seems to care about Camera Lucida and Roland Barthes. Camera Lucida is being associated with psychology. Jean-Paul Sartre would be writing these other papers or writings.

2.The Camera Lucida citings are used by in-text quotes used to help the author address his point. This writing is trying to make the point that photography has a lot to do with self reflection.

3. The other writings are generally talking about how psychology explains our imagination.

4.http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/6.2/Burnett.html

5.This reference source can be associated with psychology and philosophy.

Citation #4

1.Kasia Houlihan seems to care about Camera Lucida and Roland Barthes. The context that Camera Lucida is being associated with is the history; and the examination of that history of photographs. Beaumont Newhall could be writing these other papers.

2. The Camera Lucida citings are used with in-text citations with quotations. They are used to supplement the author's argument. This writing is trying to make the point that, although a photograph immortalizes an object, the photograph is unclassifiable.

3. The other writings are generally talking about the history of photography and how it gives us meaning.

4.http://csmt.uchicago.edu/annotations/barthescamera.htm

5.The reference source can be associated with history and the arts.

Citation #3

1.The Quarterly Conversation seems to care about Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida. Camera Lucida is being associated with the temporal existence of objects. Edwin Abbott would be writing these other papers or writings.

2.These Camera Lucida citings are used by mentioning the ideas of Camera Lucida without quoting it directly. This new writing is trying to make a point that Barthes references other art forms in his reflections about photography.

3. The other writings are generally talking about perspective and what seems real to us.

4.http://quarterlyconversation.com/camera-lucida-by-roland-barthes-review

5. The reference source can be associated with philosophy, existentialism, and meaning.

Citation #2

1.Geoff Dyer seems to care about Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida. Camera Lucida is being associated with the meaning of photography and how it affects us. Alfred Stieglitz would be writing these other papers.

2. These Camera Lucida citings are used by references to the book and Barthes' life. There are quotes, however no page numbers. This writing tries to make the point that even though technology evolves more than photography can keep up, photographs have the same effect on our culture.

3.Generally, the other writings are talking about the meaning of the idea of photography.

4.http://www.believermag.com/issues/201009/?read=article_dyer

5.This reference can be associated with philosophy, photography, and existentialism.

Citation #1

1.Lori Wike seems to care about Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida. Camera Lucida is being associated with signatures, Jacques Derrida, and literary arts as a whole.

2.The Camera Lucida citings are used by being quoted directly in text. This writing is trying to make the point that photographs and signatures are very alike.

3.The other writings are generally talking about how writing has a distinct mark on history; it is an instance of time, captured.

4.http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/issue3/wike.htm

5.This reference source can be associated with writing professions and visual studies.

"Mad or tame? Photography can only be one or the other: tame if its realism remains relative, tempered by aesthetic or empirical habits...;mad if this realism is absolute and, so to speak, original, obliging the loving and terrified consciousness to return to the very letter of time" (119). I think this quote illustrates the human tendency to dichotomize the things that we observe. Barthes says that photography can only be mad or tame. This is often how we see reality, not just pictures. We often see things to be "good" or "bad" and often do not see things on a spectrum.

Camera Lucida Assignment 2/12/15

"... In a certain photograph I believe I perceive lineaments of the truth. This is what happens when I judge a certain photograph "a likeness". Yet on thinking it over, I must ask myself: Who is like what? Resemblance is a conformity, but to what? to an identity. Now this identity is imprecise, even imaginary, to the point where I can continue to speak of the "likeness" without ever having seen the model" (Barthes, 101) This event highlights an instance of human nature; our tendency to analyze things to the core, even when there is nothing left to analyze. Naturally, we attempt to rationalize the things that we observe. As with a simple photograph, a moment in time captured visually, there is nothing to be rationalized. A photograph is simply just a picture; an instant in time. Barthes instinctively and incessantly tries to find something to compare the photograph to. This nature of ours helps us find meaning in objects, words, images, sounds, and life in general.

What is the source?

sport-asia.com

• Provide a link.

http://sport-asia.com/table-tennis-zhang-jike-kicks-out-after-winning-world-cup-thriller/

• What would you say is the category of this source?

sports news website

• What are the images communicating? What idea?

Zhang Ji ke clenching his fists and howling in victory, a trademark of his. He is extremely excited after beating his rival Ma Long in a comeback victory in the Liebherr Men’s World cup.

• What is the image there to do for whatever context they exist in?

The image gives us the impression that Zhang Ji Ke is excited that he defeated Ma Long, fellow teammate and rival in a very important table tennis cup. Not much is to be said about this photo.

• Who is the audience?

Those who follow professional Table tennis.

What is the source?

ededition.com

• Provide a link.

http://www.ededition.com/district-9-review/

• What would you say is the category of this source?

news/pop culture/random website

• What are the images communicating? What idea?

The MNU is visiting a prawn shack with authority, perhaps with suspicion of illegal activities being conducted.

• What is the image there to do for whatever context they exist in?

The image serves to bring to our attention the xenophobic tendencies of the oppressor. Those who are not like us whom we do not like, we cast out of society and trample over. These peoples, given little to no rights have no choice but to wait and linger in the rubble that was left for them.

• Who is the audience?

Everybody. Those with privilege, and those without.

What is the source?

hollywoodreporter.com

• Provide a link.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/chappie-trailer-2-762256

• What would you say is the category of this source?

news/pop culture website

• What are the images communicating? What idea?

An artificially intelligent non-biological life form consciously observing a foreign, past version of himself; a version prior in his kind's evolutionary history: one without sentience. Curious, yet confused, he reflects on what he is, how he came to be, and why.

• What is the image there to do for whatever context they exist in?

The image is there to describe a story of Chappie, a truly sentient, yet benevolent AI housed within a mechanical body. Just as we humans often reflect on our history and what we were before we were Human, so does Chappie. It serves to unite us as people, to show us that we are all the same.

• Who is the audience?

Everybody.

What is the source?

webandtechs.com

• Provide a link.

http://webandtechs.com/2015/02/fda-approved-exoskeleton-rewalk-allows-paralyzed-people-to-walk/

• What would you say is the category of this source?

news website

• What are the images communicating? What idea?

A partially paralyzed man is able to walk with the help of an FDA approved exosuit. Despite the common tendency to vilify technology, innovation is much more beneficial than not.

• What is the image there to do for whatever context they exist in?

The image symbolizes how what we once thought was a distant fantasy now stares us straight in the face. People might be afraid of this change, but this man walks ahead, confident in the change.

• Who is the audience?

The entire public; people who keep up with or care about recent innovations

Camera Lucida (63-73)

This section of the book basically described how the dead are, in a way, immortal. A photograph even further immortalizes a person in history by creating a permanent, long lasting image. As Barthes describes his deceased mother, it sounds like one describes history; incomplete comprehension of how it was, unless actually lived through. This concept roots back to our human nature of attempting to analyze and rationalize every event that we see.