Reading Response: Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida excerpt

This article was very interesting and kind of difficult to read and understand. I had to read it over a few times just to understand the main concept. I think it is interesting how we all immediately  start analyzing and interpreting photos when we see them whether we mean to or not. This article helped give words and categories to how I analyze photos that I see. The Studium is just the overall enthusiastic commitment to the photo. Then the "coded" aspects of the photo are more specific things like the details of the photos. This answers questions like Formal/informal? color/Black and white? etc. The Punctum then brings in the personal connection that comes with photos. It describes when a photos links to something of our past.