Camera Lucida - Barthes

1980

“One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852, And I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: “I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor:' Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it, nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.” (P.3)

Barthes, Roland. Page 3, Page 26, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, 1980, Translated into English by Richard Howard, New York, Hill & Wang, 1982.