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Assignment 8: Pathways

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Assignment 6/8: More attempts at black and white photos

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Assignment #6

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Assignment #6 (not really but sorta)

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Assignment 1

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Assignment 0

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Camera Lucida 6

I don't even know if a book like this exists but I would pick one that goes through photos the same way as Camera Lucida does in the second half. A book with pictures that mean something to someone accompanied with a story about the picture with it. How did this end up being photographed? Why? What is the point of its existence?  I think It would be cool if there was a part 2 to this book telling about why these photos mean something. Are the people in it dead? Are they good memories? Bad? What is the purpose of keeping it? And sharing it?

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Camera Lucida 5

http://www.academia.edu/163435/What_Do_We_Want_Photography_To_Be_unillustrated_version_this_is_now_part_of_What_Photography_Is_

1. It seems as if everyone in the photography world that posts things online knows about Camera Lucida and Roland Barthes. I guess this means that they are the ones who mostly care about it.

2. The citings are used to show that Barthes "establish(s) a new means of observing" and to create a  "new consciousness through photography."

3. This writing is in a way making people want to go read the book.

4. Thinking Culture Blog

5. Whoever wrote this is basically just reviewing what happened in the book.

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Camera Lucida 4

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1. This is talking about Bathes writing style as a whole.

2. The citings are used to show that Barthes was "more of a poet than a philosopher". It takes excerpts from Camera Lucida and uses them to show that his style of writing is more of a piece of art than a academic writing.

3. Again this post is talking about how unique Camera Lucida is and  all these little tidbits that make up something great.

4. Grant Faulkner Website

5. This guy is a writer so he appreciates the writing itself more than anything.

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Camera Lucida 3

https://phenomenologyandphotography.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/on-studium-and-punctum-in-camera-lucida/

1. This blog post talks about the more academic side Camera Lucida. Mostly the Punctum and the Studium, The person who wrote this seems to be a photographer so it makes sense that this post would be more about the actual photography  than the more personal side of Camera Lucida.

2. These citings are used to sum up the main ideas that Barthes made in the book. They are to show the differences between two sides of photos. (punctum & studium)

3. This particular writing is showing how correct Barthes was when he made up what the punctum and the studium were. It basically is just proving Barthes right.

4. Phenomenology and Photography blog

5. Photography

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Camera Lucida 2

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/books/death-in-the-photograph.html

1. The New York Times published an article about semi recent works on photography, It picks out a few but concentrates on Camera Lucida for its originality. It talks of how he tried to identify the "grammar" of photography, to explain fundamentally what photographs do, what their purpose is. This article is probably meant for people who enjoy creativity, people who appreciate art and interpretation.

2.  The citings are used to show the reader what Camera Lucida is about essentially. It takes quotations from mostly the second half of the book, the more personal half. It makes the reader of the article want to find out more about Camera Lucida.

3. Mostly Barthes originality with Camera Lucida. It points out the differences of it from other more generic photography based works.

4. The New York Times

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Camera Lucida 1

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/26/roland-barthes-camera-lucida-rereading

1. In this particular article the people that seem to care about Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida are other writers. This article is discussing Barthes work as a whole and talks of his eventual death. The article is showing appreciation to his writing and to his new thoughts on photography. This particular article is on The Guardian Webpage which is Pulitzer Prize winning.

2. The citings are used to show that there are two distinctive sections of Camera Lucida. It showcases that the first section is Barthes trying to figure out what photography is and the second is Barthes dealing with his emotions through old photographs.

3.They are generally talking about how great Camera Lucida is. How unique it is from any other photography based work.

4. The Guardian

5. Other Writers.

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Assignment 20

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Camera Lucida

"The photograph is like old age: even in its splendor, it disincarnates the face, manifests it's genetic essence...."(105) "How can we look without seeing?" (111)

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Camera Lucida

"This punctum, more or less blurred beneath the abundance and the disparity of contemporary photographs, is vividly legible in historical paragraphs: there is always a defeat of Time in them: that is dead and that is going to die." (96) "It is because each photograph always contains this imperious sign of my future death that each one, however attached it seems to be to the excited world of the living, challenges each of us, one by one, outside of any generality." (97) "To scrutinize means to turn the photograph over, to enter into the paper's depth, to reach its other side." (100)