Kim Deuk-hwan: Roland Barthes's Room Brightly Light: Photography and the Phenomenology of Time

The uniqueness of photography lies in its use of mechanical imaging programs to record reality. From the perspective of documentation, photography continues to function as an information medium for social communication. If one seeks to reflect this characteristic in photography, information regarding photographic images is directly related to social and cultural ideologies. This is because the method of interpreting photographs is structured around the values of banalized historical knowledge and relies on the cultured knowledge of the readers. This problem is a natural consequence of attributing the importance of information based on positivity—which is communicated within the entire world of everyday attitudes—as the essence of meaning. For instance, even today, while the discourse surrounding photography remains rooted in traditional forms, it is perceived through general values resulting from the rationalization of semiotic meaning within a structuralist framework. Consequently, it can be said that the free interpretive methods of the inherent meaning of photography have been overlooked by defining the message of meaning conveyed by photography as something to be deciphered within the category of social codes. Starting from this critical perspective, this study intends to discuss the subject from a critical standpoint, based on the theoretical grounds of photography presented in *The Room Obscured* (La chambre claire).

Korean title: 롤랑바르트의 밝은 방 사진과 시간의 현상학

Korean author: 김득환

Korean publisher: 한국학술정보

ISBN-13: 9788926897706