Fabien Arribert-Narce, “Roland Barthes’s Photobiographies” (2009): Summary
Summary of Fabien Arribert-Narce’s essay on Roland Barthes’s photobiographies: how Barthes used photographs to write a life “exempt from meaning”.
Roland Barthes
Ashley la Grange, Basic Critical Theory for Photographers (2005): Book Guide
A guide to Ashley la Grange’s Basic Critical Theory for Photographers (Focal Press, 2005): Berger, Sontag, Barthes, Szarkowski, Rosler and more, explained.
James Elkins, What Photography Is (2011): An Answer to Camera Lucida
Summary of James Elkins’s What Photography Is (Routledge, 2011), a reply to Barthes’s Camera Lucida about what photographs show beyond meaning.
Shamoon Zamir on The Family of Man as Exhibition (2018): Summary
Summary of Shamoon Zamir’s essay on The Family of Man exhibition: rhyme, association, visitor participation and the lynching photograph.
Lior Levy on Photographic Meaning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida (2009)
Summary of Lior Levy’s essay on photographic meaning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida (2009): time, the Winter Garden photograph and sight.
Rhetoric of the Image, Roland Barthes (1964): Key Points and Reference
Key points of Barthes’s “Rhetoric of the Image” (1964): the Panzani ad, denoted and connoted messages, anchorage and relay.
The Family of Man Exhibition (1955): MoMA’s Landmark Show
The Family of Man exhibition opened at MoMA in 1955. Steichen gathered 503 photographs from 68 countries, and critics still debate its message.