Photography by Douglass F. Dresher

photography by douglass f. dresher - dfdresher@gmail.com

"... in Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality and of the past. And since this constraint exits only for Photography, we must consider it, by reduction, as the very essence, the noeme of Photography. What I internalize in a photograph (we are not speaking of film) is neither Art nor Communication, it is Reference, which is the founding order of Photography. The name of Photography's noeme will therefore be: "That-has-been..."

Camera Lucida - by Roland Barthes

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photography by douglass f. dresher - dfdresher@gmail.com

"... in Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality and of the past. And since this constraint exits only for Photography, we must consider it, by reduction, as the very essence, the noeme of Photography. What I internalize in a photograph (we are not speaking of film) is neither Art nor Communication, it is Reference, which is the founding order of Photography. The name of Photography's noeme will therefore be: "That-has-been..."
Camera Lucida - by Roland Barthes