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Post- Punctum 2025
Post-Punctum
Camera Lucida (1980), written by French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes, is considered one of the most important works on photographic theory. In the book, Barthes develops the twin concepts of Studium and Punctum. Barthes describes the Punctum as “that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me").The Punctum, he states is "deeply subjective, experienced as an accidental “sting, speck, cut, [or] little hole.”
In Camera Lucida, Barthes identifies the Punctum in each of his 24 chosen photographs, all of by male photographers. One morning i took my own student copy of Camera Lucida and cored a 50 mm Punctum through the middle of the book.
This physical hole produced a new version and understating of the
Punctum. The 24 cored Punctums are each presented as a revised page of Camera Lucida, accompanied by Barthes’s original text
alongside the cored out book