He felt a great loss after the departure of his mother, an ordeal that kept reflecting back in his mind whenever he viewed the photograph.īesides serving as a source of dedication to his mother and a portrayal of his grief, this work generally demonstrated the relationship between cultural society, meaning, and subjectivity. These views reflect a very unique and personal sentiment that cannot be parted from him. The reminiscence of the worlds’ dynamic nature is depicted to us, by way of avoiding the reality. His mother’s death has led to physical representation of what has vanished. He maintained that a picture has a potential to create deceitfulness in the fantasy of ‘what is’, where the description of ‘What was’ is so specific. Bathes, therefore, found a remedy to this sort of personal significance from his mother’s picture. His attempt to demonstrate the relationship between studuim ( the observable photographs’ symbolic meaning) and punctum (the subjective and personal view which penetrates through the viewer), was particularly remarkable and somewhat sensible.īarthes was disturbed by the fact that such peculiarities fall down when the personal significance that is connoted on a photograph is made known to others, and can have its representational logic streamlined.
Following the death of his mother in 1977, Barthes wrote Camera Lucida – whose primary focus was to bring out the significance and the meaning of her childhood photograph.
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