In Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes introduces two co-existing elements that frame his interest in photographs. One is the studium, a general enthusiastic commitment almost by training, in a “wide field of unconcerned desire”. “The studium is an order of liking, not of loving. it mobilizes a half desire, a demi-volition, it is the same sort of vague, slippery, irresponsible interest one takes in the people, the entertainments, the books, the clothes one finds “all right”.
This was a beautiful read and analysis of Barthes! I read Camera Lucida last year for a book review I was working on; it’s a really intimate and inquiring way to approach photography and art, and I loved all the connections you drew to your own work and to broader concepts of beauty
This was a beautiful read and analysis of Barthes! I read Camera Lucida last year for a book review I was working on; it’s a really intimate and inquiring way to approach photography and art, and I loved all the connections you drew to your own work and to broader concepts of beauty
thank you Celine and welcome!! Also I thoroughly enjoyed your 2023 reading list, will definitely pick out titles from there for 2024 x