Photography & Video, Sociology 

Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition in his own mind. 

Part one 1. Specialty of the photograph
2. The photograph unclassicfiable
3. Emotion as departure
4. Operators, spectrum and spetator
5. He who is photographed
6. The spectator : chaos of tastes
7. Photography as adventure
8. A casual phenomenology
9. Duality
10. Studium and Punctum
11. Studium
12. To inform
13. To paint
14. To surprise
15. To signify
16. To waken desire
17. The unary photograph
18. Co-presence of the Studium and the Punctum
19. Punctum : partial feature
20. Involuntary feature
21. Satori
22. After-the-fact and silence
23. Blind Field
24. Palinode
Part two
25. "One evening"
26. History as separation
27. To recognize
28. The winter garden photograph
29. The little girl
30. Ariadne
31. The family, the mother
32. "That-has-been"
33. The pose
34. The luminous rays, color
35. Amazement
36. Authentication
37. Stasis
38. Flat death
39. Times as Punctum
40. Private/public
41. To scrutinize
42. Resemblance
43. Lineage
44. Camera Lucida
45. the "Air"
46. The look
47. Madness, Pity
48. The photograph tamed.