Roland Barthes and Photography

Authors

  • Rodrigo Fontanari Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2010v6n9p53

Keywords:

Roland Barthes, Photography, Semiotics, Image.

Abstract

This is a review article and a short exegesis from one of the most important texts of international commentators, especially those not yet translated into Portuguese, that we may consider the last work in Barthes’s life, Camara Lucida. What is proposed here is to offer subsidies to elucidate this important work, which, thirty years after its formation, it hasn’t been so much studied, and its huge contribution to science communication got lost, and especially the reflections on the role of photographic image in the contemporary world. It’s possible to make some hypothesis that, being a semioclasta, rather than an iconoclast, Barthes was in a better position to read and understand images.

 

Author Biography

Rodrigo Fontanari, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Graduado em Comunicação Social pela Universidade de Ribeirão Preto (2005). Mestre pela PUC/SP –  Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2008). Doutorando em Comunicação e Semiótica na mesma instituição.

Published

2010-12-15

How to Cite

Fontanari, R. (2010). Roland Barthes and Photography. Discursos Fotograficos, 6(9), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2010v6n9p53

Issue

Section

Artigos