Oct 3, 2024
If, as Barthes claims, cameras are 'clocks for seeing', the space they show is nevertheless subject to the temporal hallucinations of human experience. This is the dialectical lesson of Barthes' Camera Lucida: the subjective time of the spectator invades the historical space of the image. Such a proposition might have already been intimated in eighteenth-century theory, with the concept of what was then called the "punctum temporis" of the picture. David Bate (2023) Photography After Postmodernism
