![]() ![]() ![]() The essential nature-or eidos- of this subjective experience of photography is defined by an irreducible singularity of the photographic image, as an index indicating, ‘ that-has-been.’ Barthes says that he wants, ‘a History of Looking’ (12), and in doing so, he attempts to account for the fundamental roles of emotion and subjectivity in the experience of and accounting for Photography. His efforts aim to fashion an altogether customized framework-one that is distinct from already-determined accounts of images and representation-in which one can ‘classify’ photography, so as to get at its essence, or noeme. ![]() The overall project of Barthe’s Camera Lucida is to determine a new mode of observation and, ultimately, a new consciousness by way of Photography. ![]()
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