Carmen Winant
Carmen Winant is a photographer and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University. Her installation The Last Safe Abortion is part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
I am a photographer (or, I once was). In my discipline, thanks to Roland Barthes’s 1980 treatise Camera Lucida, we refer to the entry point into the photograph as “the punctum.” Though “entry point” isn’t quite right. The punctum, Barthes wrote, is more than a distinct detail; in fact, it
VOLUME 3: ISSUE 1
SUMMER 2024