ABSTRACT
Roland Barthes said that the photograph consists of two sur faces-an image and a referent; they cannot be torn apart with out destroying both. The photograph and its referent “are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures,” says Barthes colorfully, “or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navi gate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.”1
