Barthes discusses his anxiety with having his photo taken.
"Now, once I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes, I constitute myself in the process of 'posing', I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image"
"The 'Private life' is nothing but that zone of space, of time, where I am an image, an object. It is my political right to be a subject which I must protect"
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (1980)
It strikes me that there might be some performance similarities.
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