“What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: The photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. In the photograph, the event is never transcended for the sake of something else: The photograph always leads the corpus I need back to the body I see.” PhotographyBarthesCamera LucidaMechanical Reproduction Book:Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Source: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography