blogging about Barthes... sort of. well, not really.

Natalia Kolesnikova/Agence France-Presse--Getty Images


Lets start by saying that i know next to nothing about photography, and what little I do know is entirely related to Barthes ideas on Semiology. However, I've been meaning to start regularly blogging observations on the New York Times headline photograph, and today seemed as good a day as any.

So to begin, what sort of significance ought we draw from the lines on Putin's forehead fading into the ruffles of his shirt?