Notes
- Barthes is of the opinion that chemists, not painters, invented photography around the time that new discoveries were being made about silver halogens and light sensitivity.
- “Color is a coating applied later on to the original truth of the black-and-white photograph.”
- Photography’s purpose, for Barthes, was to give proof to what he believed he had seen. It doesn’t always say what no longer exists, but always shows what did.
- Photography resolves the issue of whether the past in a painting was true…by recording reality by way of light, we essentially “divide the history of the world”
- While photos gave a real and accurate depiction of the world, the frame limited the viewer greatly, since only so much can fit within a frame. (So what they saw was what they got, essentially). The photographs only gave a small part of an entire experience.
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