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“For me, photographs of landscape (urban or country) must be habitable, not visitable....Now Freud says of the maternal body that 'there is no other place of which one can say with so much certainty that one has already been there.' Such then would be the essence of the landscape (chosen by desire): heimlich, awakening in me the Mother (and never disturbing Mother).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]

“...I am a primitive, a child—or a maniac; I dismiss all knowledge, all culture, I refuse to inherit anything from another eye than my own.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]

“The photograph is handsome, as is the boy: that is the studium. But the punctum is: he is going to die. I read at the same time: This will be and this has been; I observe with horror an anterior future of which death is the stake. By giving me the absolute past of the pose (aorist), the photograph tells me death in the future.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera lucida

“...if only Photography could give me a neutral, anatomic body, a body which signifies nothing! Alas, I am doomed by (well-meaning) Photography always to have an expression: my body never finds its zero degree, no one can give it to me (perhaps only my mother? For it is not indifference which erases the weight of the image—the Photomat always turns you into a criminal type, wanted by the police—but love, extreme love).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]