Camera lucida: reflections on photography
"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.
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- Full title :Camera lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Howard.
Summary
"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.
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- Publication Date:©1981
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1981
The Physical Object
- Description:119 pages, 1 leaf of plates : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0374521344, 9780374521349
- oclc:ocn948200233
Table of Contents
Specialty of the photograph -- The photography unclassifiable -- Emotion as departure -- Operator, spectrum and spectator -- He who is photographed -- The spectator: chaos of tastes -- Photography as adventure -- A casual phenomenology -- Duality -- Studium and punctum -- Studium -- To inform -- To paint -- to surprise -- To signify -- To waken desire -- The unary photography -- Co-presence of the studium and the punctum -- Punctum: partial feature -- Involuntary feature -- Satori -- After-the-fact and silence -- Blind field -- Palinode -- "One evening ..." -- History as separation -- To recognize -- The winter garden photograph -- The little girl -- Ariadne -- The family, the mother -- "That-has-been" -- The pose -- The luminous rays, color -- Amazement -- Authentication -- Stasis -- Flat death -- Time as punctum -- Private/public -- To scrutinize -- Resemblance -- Lineage -- Camera lucida -- The "air" -- The look -- Madness, pity -- The photograph tames.
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