Barthes’ Connotation Procedures in Photography.

One of the major thinkers on photography is Roland Barthes. He has written a number of important texts that I will refer to on the blog. Barthes worked within the semiological tradition. In his article from 1961 The Photographic Message he talks about connotation procedures.

It is, according to Barthes, “possible to separate out various connotation procedures”. I will use Barthes’ “headlines” from his article, but bring in my own elaboration and examples. And pictures.

Barthes works with 6 procedures in his scheme. I will treat each one separately in forthcoming posts.

1. Trick effects

2. Pose

3. Objects

4. Photogenia

5. Aestheticism

6. Syntax

Stay tuned for a short separate treatment of each of Barthes’ connotation procedures. For a shortcut to some of his famous articles, please see the book referred to in Library Link below.

When I post on the individual procedures, I will link the separate posts from this introductory post. So, eventually you will be able to reach all posts from this post. Look for the links above, and you will notice that the post on 3. Objects is already there.

Good luck with it.

Library Thing. (Roland Barthes: Image, Music, Text, pages 15-31, Fontana Press 1977, UK. Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath)

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March 30, 2008 - Posted by Knut Skjaerven | semiology, semiotics | Barthes' connotation procedures, connotations in photography, denotation and connotation, efficient communication, picture, Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes on Photography, semiology, semiology and photography

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Barebones Communication started in December 2007.

The idea was to make a blog about communication combining different resources like phenomenology, semiology, gestalt psychology, etcetera, and to show that different orientations worked well together.

I started adding a photograph to each post, and gradually the blog became oriented towards photography as an expression of visual communication.

In 2010 I made a blog solely based on photography. It became Berlin Black And White. Today is holds 470 images. The same month I started Phenomenology and Photography, as I found that was a particularly interesting area and one that there was scarcely any attention on.

I became interested in street photography and decided to develop that area in a living combination of photography and photographic theory. That is what I still do.

Barebones Communication became the mother blog for a series of specialized blogs as well as several social groups.

I call it THE BAREBONES PROJECT since everything is so closely linked to the inspiration you find in this blog. All of it has to do with phenomenology. Not in any scholarly fashion, but as the craft of photography. More specifically S T R E E T P H O T O G R A P H Y. I find that this type of spontaneous and documentary photography have a special kinship with phenomenology’s L I F E W O R L D.

I would like to think that I, as a photographer, E X E C U T E phenomenology. To me a mere scholarly interest in phenomenology can never be enough to fulfill the original intentions of phenomenology as, first and foremost, a practical, living philosophy. Phenomenology is not for reading. It is for D O I N G.

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You will find all the activities listed in the link section of The Raw Material. I will keep it up to date.

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