ABSTRACT
The last words of Roland Barthes’ book Camera Lucida offer the reader a choice about photography: to perceive it as creating perfect illusions, or as revealing an unquestionable reality. Such, says Barthes, are ‘the two ways of the photograph’ (Barthes 2000: 119). This choice between photographic illusion and photographic reality is of course no choice at all.As Barthes himself says, both are intrinsic to the medium.
