apricots asked:
I’m referring to his essay “The Photographic Message”, from Image-Music-Text.
I was just wondering why he specifically chose press photos (photographs from newspapers) to dissect messages in photography?
As much as possible, can anyone provide the reason that actually came from Barthes? If not, any contribution would help. Thanks.
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Sorry to say I can’t offer any view of Barthes’…only my opinion. Press photos are a message, and I wish I could italicize “are” because I want to stress it. Those photos are often the first thing a great many people see of the outside world in the morning, and that (another word italicized) is a message, at least equal to a headline, and often surpassing it.