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

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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Pleasure
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

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Interviews
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do — that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. – Diane Arbus

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Photography

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. – Author Unknown

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Photography

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