A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
More Quotes from Roland Barthes:
The photographic image... is a message without a code.Roland Barthes
Very often (too often in my view) I was aware of being photographed. So, from the moment I feel I am in the camera's eye, everything changes I begin to pose, I immediately create a different body, I change even before the image.
Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Roland Barthes
To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen the hiding must be seen I want you to know that I am hiding something...
Roland Barthes
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