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     In Camera Lucida, Barthes discusses the importance of duality in photography. Specifically, he describes this duality with the phrases the studium and the punctum. The studium is what we see and the punctum is our emotional reaction. To Barthes, a photograph is not significant if there is no punctum for the studium. Since Barthes words are very complicated I found I only understood this concept in terms of acting terminology, which is something I am familiar with.

             Painted in white on one of the walls in the John Wood exhibition at the Center for Photography is a poignant quotation. He states, “I would like my pictures to be abstract and poetic visual images of friends and the world. No story telling.

 Evidently, this is my first blog post.