Placed in Saint Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican, this photograph represents a man walking through the colonnade of the Piazza. Captured to display the Catholic Church, this photograph was taken in 1960 by Edwin Smith, an English photographer best known for his unique vignettes of landscapes and architecture. Edwin Smith always found euphoria in buildings and landscapes, and eventually turned exclusively to these themes. He describes himself as “an architect by training, a painter by inclination and a photographer by necessity”. Beginning in the 1950s, he was commissioned to produce a series of books that helped refine these subjects. The image I am about to discuss was likely to be published under the same circumstances. Roland Barthes was a French philosopher, critic and essayist who helped establish structuralism from his writings on semiotics, which led to movements leading intellectuals.Using this photo, I will address Roland Barthes' program of myth analysis, using his text "The Myth Today", the second part of his book Mythologies. What Roland Barthes recognized as myth was the way in which a culture or place gives it meaning. Myth being a system of communication, “everything can be a myth”. provided that it is conveyed by a discourse". (107) At the beginning of "The Myth Today", Barthes defines the myth as a word. The myth is a word in the sense that it is part of a system of communication in which it carries meaning By this definition, Barthes extends the perception of the myth of Lévi-Strauss to include all symbols carrying meaning (whether it is a spoken or written text, an image. , a drawing, etc. and even human actions such as sunbathing). For Barthes, every cultural product had a meaning, and this meaning is conditioned by ideology, that is to say myth, and there...... middle of paper ......By adding these hieroglyphs the meaning of the space changes The monumentality of the grandeur of the columns remains, giving the space its importance and its power. again, there is still no defined moment in which the photo is located during the observation However, you now have the impression that the priest is walking in an Egyptian temple or tomb. We no longer hastily conclude that space is associated with religion. This begins to allow the space to control the context, with the priest on the fringes of the photographic truth. For this reason, the myth changes. Before, the immense power in which the columns created helped to strengthen the power of the Catholic Church. Posing as a large, powerful and wealthy machine with the priest working inside it. As we no longer think about it, it is difficult to establish a link between the priest and space..