Barthes argues that a photograph dosent signify a memory meaning that memories aren’t always just images and sometimes smells and sounds. This leads on to my idea on including a sound archive from a old home movie that was created when me and my siblings were younger. Barthes also argues that a photograph is a counter memory which blocks real memories, he believes that the images becomes full and crammed and nothing can be added to it. Although is challenged by the idea that it depends on the relationship between the photograph and the beholder. In Camera Lucida he hopes to connect and analyse his insights about the photograph and how the photograph connects to memory and reality.
The beholder is the person who looks at the photograph which is the primary relationship. The secondary relationship is the how the beholder relates and feels towards the photograph. This could mean that they are the photograph and can connect because they were present in the image making. Or it could be someone who is completely disconnected who hasn’t seen the image before.
” THE MEMORY MAY NOT ALWAYS EXIST FOR THE SUBJECT, BUT IT MUST ALWAYS HAVE EXISTED FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER OR THE OPERATOR, WHO DEEMED SOME FACET OF THE MOMENT APPROPRIATE FOR CAPTURING.”
Barthes acknowledges the idea of personal memory, sometime you may look at a photograph and feel completely disconnected and may not feel or remember anything by looking at the image. The reality of the event may be blurred this could be for simply many reasons. For example a photograph of you as a baby you are simply too young to have any recognition of the reality of the event, and another could be a form of cognitive offloading that I have previously mentioned before and simply allowing the camera/ technology to do all the work, so your not as present in the moment.
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