The Noeme of Photography: The Paradigmatic Shift in the Photographic Theory of Roland Barthes
The Noeme of Photography: The Paradigmatic Shift in the Photographic Theory of Roland Barthes
Author(s): Hirohisa KoikeSubject(s): Photography, Semiology, Recent History (1900 till today), Ontology
Published by: Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühing
Keywords: Roland Barthes; photography;
Summary/Abstract: This article argues that Roland Barthes’s understanding of photography went through a significant shift: from his early semiotic interpretation in the 1960s, he moved in the late 1970s toward an ontological theory of photography, inspired by his understanding of haiku. Discovering the noeme of photography through haiku, Barthes realised that both haiku and photography were unsuitable for speaking of love. Therefore, he wrote La Chambre claire as a phenomenology of photography, to create a ‘monument’ to his mother, as photography was inextricably intertwined with the death of his mother.
Journal: Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi
- Issue Year: 28/2019
- Issue No: 03+04
- Page Range: 7-26
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
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