![]() ![]() What then happens to motion and to the passage of time? Are the configurations on the screen, the patterns of light and dark, the flowing presence and absence of people and objects, an image? Can this plurality and heterogeneity be reduced to the singular? Should it be? The concrete image can then become like a word or like a text. Underlying this approach is the search for the visible. ![]() It is to elevate image to the level of a category. To speak of the image is often to speak of an object with a set of specific boundaries. ![]() (See pages 120-126 of Cultures of Vision) But, it is my contention and it was also Roland Barthes central concern later in his career, that we don’t read images as we might read words on a page. One of the great difficulties which results is that we tend to approach the interpretation of media images as if they can in a literal sense be read. There are many problems with this conversion of media which use visuals and sound into text. Generally, images are studied as if they are texts. The notes below should be used with additional information from Cultures of Vision Barthes uses many different terms and concepts throughout Camera Lucida ![]()
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