Death of the Author - 1967
This expands on his ideas about how we respond to and interpret messages through text and images. Barthes argues the producer has only partial control of it's meaning.
"to give a text an author is to impose a limit on that text" this means that by leaving something without a meaning allows viewers to have their own opinion of it and not be told they are wrong.
Barthes suggests that all messages are constructed within a social and political context and such cannot claim to be direct emission. The reader/viewer has more responsibility to the text than the author.
Creator - artwork transmits it's meaning - audience
Creator - meaning - art work's meaning is interpreted - meaning - audience.
Camera Lucida - 1980
This is an enquiry into the nature of photography.
the operator - the photographer
the spectator - viewer of the photograph
the spectrum - what is depicted in the photograph
Studium - general intrest
Punctum - will break the studium. (is a partial object or detail.)
Punctum is not easily communicated through language and is inspired on an intensely private meaning in the viewer. Suggestion that the punctum is an aspect in the image undetectable.
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