Camera Lucida
Vintage Design Edition
$25.62
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2020
Summary
An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography. Barthes’ personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of critical theory of the twentieth century.
This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout.
Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784876012 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784876011 |
| Author: | Roland Barthes, Richard Howard |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
Roland Barthes’ final book - less a critical essay than a suite of valedictory meditations - is his most beautiful, and most painful
Of all his works it is the most accessible in language and the most revealing about the author. And effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader * Guardian *Roland Barthes’ final book - less a critical essay than a suite of valedictory meditations - is his most beautiful, and most painful * Observer *Profoundly shaped the way the medium is regarded * Guardian *I am moved by the sense of discovery in Camera Lucida, by the glimpse of a return to a lost world * New Society *
About The Author
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
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