Camera Lucida

What I absolutely loved about this reading is that it explains the simplicity of photography and how in the beginning of photography there was not editing and changing the lighting; a photograph was what it was. This however was the beauty of it, the way that the silver in the film was able to capture the perfection of the scene at had and then translate it to a picture makes it beautiful. The original film pictures were able to capture a moment in time that can never again be relived except for in the size of the photograph. Barthes explains that in one photo that he was in he could not remember that moment when it was taken but he knows that he was there because the picture cannot lie. This is the complete opposite of how photography is now, because with the help of Photoshop any person that has the knowledge to move around Photoshop can add any person that they want into any photo.  Another aspect that I loved was that there is simplicity in the subject of the photo that does not exist in the digital world. Barthes was telling that when photography first came out it was pictures of people and simple scenes not artist trying to play around with different techniques. Although I do love this reading and what it stands for, I am not sure that it pertains to the project at hand, this reading talks about the beginning of photography, and we are using digital photography and then on top of that we are focusing on time and space not on the simplicity of photography. Also I know that I am using color photography and the traditional film photography was all black and white. So although it was interesting to read it does not exactly relate to the aspect of photography that we are using.