Camera lucida : reflections on photography /

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 a...

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Main Author:	Barthes, Roland (Author)
Other Authors:	Dyer, Geoff (author of introduction.), Howard, Richard, 1929-2022 (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the French.
Published:	New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Subjects:	Photography, Artistic. Photography > Philosophy.