And the person or thing photographed is the target, the referent, a kind of little simulacrum, any eidolon emitted by the object, which I should like to call the Spectrum of the Photograph, because this word retains, through its root, a relation to „spectacle“ and adds to it that rather terrible thing which is there in every photograph: the return of the dead.

Barthes, Roland: Camera Lucida (1980)

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