Photography theater Quotes, Tips and Wisdom

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Abadzic, Stanko

Abbey, Edward

Abbott, Berenice

Abell, Sam

Ackerman, Diane

Acosta, Blanca

Acuna, David

Adams, Ansel

Adams, Claude

Adams, Eddie

Adams, Edsel

Adams, Gilbert

Adams, Jeff

Adams, Peter

Adams, Robert

Adams, Scott

Adams, Jim

Adatto, Kiku

Addario, Lynsey

Agee, James Rufus

Agou, Christophe

Aldighieri, April

Allard, William Albert

Allen, Timothy

Aluko, Omolara

Andersen, Thomas Folke

Anderson, Margaret C.

Anne, Princess

Anonymous

Appelt, Dieter

Aragon, Louis

Araki, Nobuyoshi

Arbus, Amy

Arbus, Diane

Archibald, Timothy

Arino, Eimu

Aristotle

Arnheim, Rudolf

Arnold, Eve

Aronovich, Ignacio

Arp, Hans

Arthus-bertrand, Yann

Asif, Usman B.

Atget, Eugene

Atkins, Anna

Atkinson, Brooks

Attar, Abbas

Atticks, Joshua

Attie, Shimon

Auden, Wystan Hugh

Auletta, Ken

Auletta, Ralph

Ausloos, Paul

Auster, Paul

Avedon, Richard

Tag: theater

We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to designate oneself as a body simultaneously living and dead: the whitened bust of the totemic theater, the man with the painted face in the Chinese theater, the rice-paste makeup of the Indian Katha-Kali, the Japanese No mask ... Now it is this same relation which I find in the Photograph; however 'lifelike' we strive to make it (and this frenzy to be lifelike can only be our mythic denial of an apprehension of death), Photography is a kind of primitive theater, a kind of Tableau Vivant, a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead. - Roland Barthes - From the book: "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography" by Roland Barthes