Camera obscura

• Authors: Swoboda Tomasz

Title variants

EN

Camera obscura

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This essay endeavours to decipher the closing years of Roland Barthes as a photograph. Contrary to the title of his last book, Barthes wrote and constructed more of an existential camera obscura whose mechanism served the task of mourning, i.e. La Chambre claire, as well as disclosed the fundamental figures devised in his imagination, namely, darkness and enclosure. The biography of Barthes’ last years proves to be a counterpart of an initiation–like transition towards darkness, the digging of one’s grave, and a reversed version of illumination.

Keywords

PL

Fotografia; Obraz; Antropologia

EN

photography; Barthes

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 3-4(306-307)
• Pages: 218-226

Contributors

author

Swoboda Tomasz