#camera lucida

[letheanwater]

camera lucida, roland barthes

[tyger-land]

"𝗛𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗲 . . ." From the 1980 book Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes.

Photograph of Lewis Powell, 27 April 1865, awaiting trial for his part in the Lincoln assassination; hanged two months later.

[mooncustafer]

Acquired a “Phantom-Line 100,” a vintage device for superimposing ruled lines on paper when doing calligraphy. I took it home, on the suspicion that it was a type of camera lucida. It sort of is—I would have to invert it and mount it at eye-level to use it as such, but in the meantime I’ve had some luck with balancing this tablet on it and using it to trace images from the screen onto a surface:

It flips the image like a mirror—will need to preemptively reverse it on the tablet next time

[dk-thrive]

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

— Roland Barthes, "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography". (Hill and Wang, 1980 in French. Richard Howard translation in 1981) (via Thoughts)

[yorgunherakles]

ben, her canlıya ait olan o gücün içinde yaşam bulduğuma inanıyorum: bu güç unutmadır.

roland barthes - ara olaylar

[thirdity]

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

[mabeldrinkstea]

Finished Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes and immediately started Susan Sontag's On Photography

[celluloidwickerman]

Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 9)

Part 8 Souvenirs The past is dangerously addictive. Nostalgia, especially second-hand nostalgia such as mine, often threatens to become an endless placebo in place of living. How alluring the past seems when we convince ourselves of having experienced it for a brief moment through culture and art. The ghost story writer M.R. James lived with this addiction to the past more than most. James…

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