Usually the amateur is defined as an immature.... : Quote by Roland Barthes

“ Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. ”

Roland Barthes
  • From : Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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