Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes

ISBN 10: 0374521344 / ISBN 13: 9780374521349

Published by Hill & Wang, 1982

About this Item

Hill & Wang, 1981 - Very good -.

Seller Inventory # 879232844

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Camera Lucida
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374521344
• ISBN 13: 9780374521349
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.

About the Author

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the 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.