Camera Lucida Reflections On Photography

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Camera Lucida

Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. 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 Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. Strikingly personal, yet one of the most important early academic works on photography, Camera Lucida remains essential reading for anyone interested in the power of images. 'Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader' Guardian
Photography Degree Zero

Palinode : an introduction to Photography degree zero / Geoffrey Batchen -- Re-reading Camera lucida / Victor Burgin -- The pleasure of the phototext / Jane Gallop -- What is a photograph? / Margaret Iversen -- Touching photographs : Roland Barthes’s "mistaken" identification / Margaret Olin -- Buddha Barthes : what Barthes saw in photography (that he didn’t in literature) / Jay Prosser -- Notes on love and photography / Eduardo Cadava and Paola Corte ́s-Rocca -- Barthes’s Punctum / Michael Fried -- What do we want photography to be? : a response to Michael Fried / James Elkins -- Notes on the Punctum / Rosalind E. Krauss -- Camera lucida, circa 1980 / Gordon Hughes -- Black and blue : the shadows of Camera lucida / Carol Mavor -- Race and reproduction in Camera lucida / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Camera lucida: another little history of photography / Geoffrey Batchen.
Camera Lucida

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.