![]() ![]() ![]() He also distinguished the photograph into two elements, studium and punctum and through this two elements he started his journey to analyze and value his favorite photograph. Barthes put his position as a spectator in value the photograph, he found that the photograph is a message without a code, its certification of presence tools to experience time as a singular and repeatable event. The book consists of two parts, the first part mostly Barthes elaborate the concept of photography and taking some his favorite public photograph he likes as an object to be analyzed meanwhile at the second part he mostly express his emotion to his mother photograph and found the essence of photograph within. This book take "Death“ as the idea of the photograph and "The Return of Death" as the essence of the photograph. In photograph there can be a signifier however it needs deeper observation and reflection. This book is elaborate the concept of Photography according to Roland Barthes, he defined photography as an image that repeats what could be never repeated, and it's never distinguished from its referent. ![]()
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