EXPLORING “PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTITY”: READING R. BARTHES’ “CAMERA LUCIDA” Cover Image

„Fotografinės tapatybės“ problematikos kristalizavimas R. Barthes’o Šviesiosios kameros pagrindu
EXPLORING “PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTITY”: READING R. BARTHES’ “CAMERA LUCIDA”

Author(s): Jekaterina Lavrinec
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: photographic experience; death; somatic expression; R. Barthes

Summary/Abstract: The paper concentrates on R. Barthes’ texts on photographic experience, in the context of which the problem of identity is examined. The photographic experience is examined from the double perspective: from the position of the interpretive subject (of the connoisseur of photography) and as an object modeled by the photographic eye (the experience of being photographed). These two modes of photographic experience mark a wide diapason of situations in which the triple structure of “photographic identity” crystallizes: 1) the dynamic uniqueness, 2) the somatic experience of the uniqueness, which appears to demonstrate family likeness and corresponds to the representational canons of the concrete historical period, and 3) the image, the further interpretations and use of which could not be controlled.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 42-49
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Lithuanian