Camera Lucida

This reading proved to be quite difficult to read and had nothing to do with zombies in a literal sense. The reading explains that photographs are an interesting thing because it traps a person, time, pose, and circumstances of that time all in a still image. He talks about a photograph of a slave market and how that even though we know there is no slavery anymore, in that picture slavery is frozen in that moment forever. The picture is neither alive nor dead but it encompases what was happening in that time period. It shows us another side of ourselves and the victims of those circumstances. The reading also talks about photographing dead bodies, an interesting concept because when we take a picture of the living there is a split that occurs. We know the picture is just a recreation of a person and there is a living person that that picture is trying to mimic. The split is the living and the recreation. When you take a picture of a dead body though the split becomes difficult because it is recreating a lifeless object and there is no living person though we say that is the living part that the picture is trying to recreate. It is here that I think this reading relates to Zombies. Though zombies are lifeless dead bodies reanimated we still consider them living similarly to how we consider a picture of a dead body a recreation of the living. It is a very difficult subject to explain and I could be completely wrong but thats what I took from this reading. The line between living and dead is blurred in the subject of photography as it is with zombies