Camera lucida: reflections on photography
"A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium. This groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida as one of the most important books of theory on the subject, along with Susan Sontag's On Photogra…
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- Full title :Camera lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Howard.
Summary
"A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium. This groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida as one of the most important books of theory on the subject, along with Susan Sontag's On Photography. Barthes' last work before his death in 1980 is a profound, personal and disturbing confrontation with the ecstasy of image."--Publisher
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- Publication Date:©1981.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Noonday press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1981.
Notes
Translation of: La chambre claire.
The Physical Object
- Description:119 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : : illustrations ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0374521344, 9780374521349
- oclc:ocm19714386
- LC Classification:TR642
- Dewey Decimal:770.1
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