PART ONE
1. Specialty of the Photograph
Barthes decided he liked Photography in opposition to the Cinema, from which he nonetheless failed to separate it.
"ontological" desire: Photography was "in itself"--was to be distinguished from the community of images (technology and usage)
Barthes wasn't sure that Photography existed, that it had a "genius" of its own.
2. The Photograph Unclassifiable
We impose upon: empirical (Professionals/Amateurs), or rhetorical (Landscapes/Objects/Portraits/Nudes), or else aesthetic (Realism/Pictorialism)
However, these classifications might only applied to older forms of representation because without relation to the essence of object--Photography is unclassifiable
