'The Photographic Message'
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Description: Notes on an essay by Roland Barthes
Barthes, "The Photographic Message" (abstract) "The Photographic Message." Ed. and trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill, 1977. 15-31. In this essay, Barthes sees the newspaper as "a complex of concurrent messages with the photograph as centre and surrounds constituted by the text, the title, the caption, the lay-out and...by the very name of the paper" (15). He separates the totality of the representation into two structures--the visual and the textual--which are "contiguous but not 'homogenized'" (16), and, laying the question of textual signification to the side, focuses on elaborating "a structural analysis of the photographic message" (16) and then on projecting some methods whereby the photographic image and attendant text relate. The photograph, according to Barthes, "transmit[s]...the scene itself, the literal reality" (17); that is, it provides a "perfect analogon" of the object represented. This direct representation (the "what it is") is the photograph's "
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