I glance through them, I don't recall them no detail (in some corner) ever interrupts my reading: I am interested in them (as I am interested in the world), I do not love them. These journalistic photographs are received (all at once), perceived. In these images, no punctum: a certain shock-the literal can traumatize -but no disturbance the photograph can "shout," not wound. The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, "unity" of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: "The subject," says one handbook for amateur photographers, "must be simple, free of useless accessories this is called the Search for Unity." News photographs are very often unary (the unary photograph is not necessarily tranquil). "The Photograph is unary when it emphatically transforms "reality" without doubling it, without making it vacillate (emphasis is a power of cohesion) : no duality, no indirection, no disturbance. Barthes distinguishes erotica from pornographic photographs as follows.
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