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Camera lucida : reflections on photography
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Chambre claire. English
Title
Camera lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.
ISBN
9780374532338
0374532338
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Published
New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.
Physical Description
xix, 119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes
"Foreward copyright 2010 by Geoff Dyer ... Originally published in 1980 by Éditions du Seuil, France ... published in 1981 in the United States by Hill Wang."--Title page verso.
Translated from the French.
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 Sontags On Photography.
Variant and related titles
Reflections on photography
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Speciality of the photograph
The photograph 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 photograph
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 tamed.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Photography, Artistic.
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