Quote by: Roland Barthes

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence ... The Photograph then becomes a bizarre (i)medium(i), a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest (o)shared(i) hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality.


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Author Bio


  • NameRoland Barthes
  • DescriptionFrench philosopher, critic and literary theorist
  • BornNovember 12, 1915
  • DiedMarch 26, 1980
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Linguist; Literary Critic; Writer