Found Street Object #4
After making each of the photographs in this series so far I have revisited texts I once studied in order to arrive at an understanding of the essential nature of Photography. For Found Street Object #4 I’ve picked up my dogged eared copy of Roland Barthes Camera Lucida. I love the fact that you can open this book and no matter what page the eyes fall on inspiration can be found. This book is Barthes very personal investigation of what essentially separates Photography from other images. A photograph of his mother is pivotal in his understanding of Photography.
I want to share the following extract from a passage where Barthes outlines his ideas on ‘systems of representations’ and where the photograph sits in this universe:
… in Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality and of the past. And since this constraint exists only for photography, we must consider if, by reduction, as the very essence, the noeme of Photography. I intentionalize in a photograph (we are not yet speaking of film)is neither Art nor Communication it is Reference, which is the founding order of Photography.
Roland Barthes
With more ideas, words and things to come from my repository of found things from the street, enjoy the “Look. Here it is” ‘that has been’ of the photographs story.
Found Street Object #4 was photographed using Hipstamatic and the combination of Blanko 1 film and Florence lens.
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