Lomography

Roland Barthes Camera Lucida JONATHAN POLKEST

Such a desire really meant that beyond the evidence provided by technology and usage, and despite its tremendous contemporary expansion,I was'nt sure that Photography existed, that it had a "genius" of its own. Who could help me? From the first step, that of classification (we must surely classify, verify by samples,if we want to constitute a corpus), Photography evades us. The various distributions we impose upon it are in fact either empirical, (professionals/ Amateurs), or rhetorical(landscapes/Objects/Portraits/Nudes), or else aesthetic (realism/pictorialism),in any case external to the object, without relation to its essence, which can only be (if it exists at all) the New of which it has been the advent; for these classifications might very well be applied to the other, older forms of representation.We might say that Photography is unclassifiable. Then I wondered what the source of this disorder might be.