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ISBN-10: 0374532338
ISBN-13: 9780374532338
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Publish Date: 10/12/2010
Dimensions: 8.25" L, 5.50" W, 0.50" H

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Translator: Richard Howard

Paperback

Price: $18.00

Overview

Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’s personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book he published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.

Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, 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.

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"[Barthes] has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition." –Newsweek
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Details

ISBN-10: 0374532338
ISBN-13: 9780374532338
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Publish Date: 10/12/2010
Dimensions: 8.25" L, 5.50" W, 0.50" H
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