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The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

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Roland Barthes
Age: 64 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 25
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Roland Gérard Barthes
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