Quote by Roland Barthes
The photographic image... is a message without a code. - Roland Ba

The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. – Roland Barthes

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Cynicism
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

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Sports
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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Photography

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. – Minor White

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Photography

Photography helps people to see. – Berenice Abbott

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Photography

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style. – Author Unknown

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Photography

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