Essay question
What is the relationship between photography and memory?
Barthes, R (1982) Camera Lucida, London: Jonathan Cape
https://monoskop.org/images/c/c5/Barthes_Roland_Camera_Lucida_Reflections_on_Photography.pdf
Overview of Barthes book Camera Lucida in Photo Pedagogy
The first half of this article talks about Barthes theory of a studium and punctum. The latter part about a photograph of his dead mother which allows him to think about memory.
Commentary on Barthes book
https://www.photopedagogy.com/roland-barthes.html
Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
Article by Brian Dillon in the Guardian, 26 March 2011
Grieving for his mother, Roland Barthes looked for her in old photos – and wrote a curious, moving book that became one of the most influential studies of photography
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/26/roland-barthes-camera-lucida-rereading
DEATH IN THE PHOTOGRAPH – critical article in response to Roland Barthes seminal book ‘Camera Lucida’ reflecting on photography.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/books/death-in-the-photograph.html?pagewanted=all
Other key texts for you to read around family and memory
What do I remember?
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo20al/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2019/11/What-do-I-remember.pdf
How can you tell a story?
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo20al/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2019/11/How-can-you-tell-a-story.pdf
Stephen-Bulger_Phototherapy_family-albums
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2021/01/Stephen-Bulger_Phototherapy_family-albums.pdf
Kuhn, A. Remembrance: The Child I Never Was in Wells, L. (ed) (2003) The Photography Reader. London: Routledge
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2021/01/Annette-Kuhn_Remembrance_the-child-I-never-was.pdf
Colberg, J (May 28, 2012) Photography and Memory
blogger on Conscientious
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/photography_and_memory/