Roland Barthes Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980
Birthday: November 12
Death: March 25
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.
source: "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography". Essay by Roland Barthes (translated by R. Howard), 1980.
topic: Real, Past, Two, Been Real
