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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
2010.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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| 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 Sontag's On Photography. |
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| Item Description: | "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. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780374532338 0374532338 |