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Roland Barthes's photography theory is mainly manifested in his poststructuralist work Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. It is not devoted to disenchantment of images as he did in his earlier work Mythologies, but highlights the rffective power of images through the proposition of punctum ( as a contrast to stadium) . In the view of Jacques Ranciere, Barthes's punctum theory enchants images and gives rise to fetish and the theology of incarnation. Ranciere reconstructs Barthes's photography theory based on his own understanding of the aesthetic regime and language-image relationship. This reconstruction provides insights about image theory, but also reveals some misinterpretations of Barthes's photography theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]