"In front of the photograph of my mother……" — Roland Barthes

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I… - Roland Barthes
"In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe."

Roland Barthes

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