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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Paperback • 2010 • English

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By Roland Barthes

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About the book

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 Photo...Show more

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ISBN

9780374532338

Publisher

Hill Wang

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Format

Paperback

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