#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.

[diana-andraste]

Stills series, Sarah Charlesworth, 1980

Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see. In short, the referent adheres. And this singular adherence makes it very difficult to focus on Photography.

—Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (1980)

"The photographs give evidence of an action—in each case, someone falling, their fall suspended in the stasis of the photograph—and by looking carefully at this evidence, a glimmer of something else comes through: a set of propositions regarding the image, life, and death."

Leslie Dick, Intentional Accidents: Reflections on Sarah Charlesworth’s Stills

[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