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What is the content of the photographic message? What does it transmit? From object to photo there is a reduction (proportion, perspective, color) but no transformation: there is no code between object and image. The image is a perfect analogon of reality - that's what defines a photograph. The special status of the photographic image: it is a message without a code. | |||
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The Photographic Message
Roland Barthes takes the press images as an example of how a photograph is a message. A message with a source of emission, a channel of transmission and a point of reception. But whatever the origin and destination of the message, the photograph is not simply a product or a channel but also an object endowed with a structural autonomy. The structure is not isolated, it communicates with another structure: text. Both structure occupy their own defined spaces.
The photographic paradox
What is the content of the photographic message? What does it transmit? From object to photo there is a reduction (proportion, perspective, color) but no transformation: there is no code between object and image. The image is a perfect analogon of reality - that's what defines a photograph. The special status of the photographic image: it is a message without a code.