Review: Alessandro Raho, Alison Jacques Gallery
Pablo Lafuente, frieze
November 2005
Discussions of photography in art often end up considering the notion of punctum, as formulated by Roland Barthes in his Camera Lucida (1980). Barthes identifies two distinct elements within photographs, a binary structure that can be extremely fruitful in analysing photographs: the studium, a general human interest or quality invested in the image by the viewer on the basis of certain political or moral aspects that both viewer and image share; and the punctum, a disruption of the studium generated by a discordant element within the image itself, unintentional and unexpected. […]