Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes has a lot of interesting thoughts. A thought of Roland Barthes's that stood out to me was "It is often said that it was the painter who invented Photography ", this is a thought that I thought before reading this and still do. Barthes on the other hand believes that it was the chemist, which is true but the painter invented the frame, the shape and the actual art of capturing a moment.

Another quote I liked was "The Photograph does not necessarily say what is no longer, but only and for certain what has been." This is a beautiful quote, but not true, which kind of sucks. It would be cool to believe everything you see but now a days we see an amazing picture and assume it has been photo shopped.