What Barthes means by Studium and punctum?
Studium describes elements of an image rather than the sum of the image’s information and meaning. The punctum of a photograph, however, contains a deeper dimension: the elements of punctum penetrate the studium—they have the ability to move the viewer in a deep and emotional way.
What is Studium punctum?
The book develops the twin concepts of studium and punctum: studium denoting the cultural, linguistic, and political interpretation of a photograph, punctum denoting the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it.
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How does the punctum punctuate Roland Barthes Studium?
The punctum punctuates the studium and as a result pierces its viewer. To allow the punctum effect, the viewer must repudiate all knowledge. Barthes insists that the punctum is not simply the sum of desires projected into the photograph.
What’s the difference between Studium and punctum in photography?
Punctum can exist alongside studium, but disturbs it, creating an ‘element which rises from the scene’ and unitentially fills the whole image. Punctum is the rare detail that attracts you to an image, Barthes says ‘its mere presense changes my reading, that I am looking at a new photograph, marked in my eyes with a higher value.’
What is the meaning of punctum in camera lucida?
Punctum is the second element to an image that Barthe mentions in Camera Lucida. Punctum is an object or image that jumps out at the viewer within a photograph- ‘that accident which pricks, bruises me.’
What does Studium do to a photographic image?
Basically studium is the element that creates interest in a photographic image. It shows the intention of the photographer but we experience this intention in reverse as spectators; the photographer thinks of the idea (or intention) then present it photographically, the spectator then has to act in the opposite way,…