punctum Q There are two elements of perception of a photograph: the photograph's studium and punctum. The studium is a viewer's appreciation of a photograph, or the believabilty of a photograph to a viewer, because of the viewer's cultural milieu. The punctum is a viewer's personal, private perception of a photograph. The punctum, Latin for traumatic puncture wound, is a penetration through the studium, a tear in the studium, that the viewer brings about because of personal predilections. Barthes concludes that punctum in perception of a photograph renders the photograph a temporal hallucination. 050521 ... jane studium_and_punctum 050522 ... Q The difference between the blathe on studium together with that on punctum here and the blathe on studium_and_punctum is that the former is an understandable rendition of the latter. 050523 ... misstree art is what hits me in the gut apt. 050720 what's it to you? who go blather from