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Language: English
Published by cape.uk, uk, 1982
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- Hardcover
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- Title
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (a first printing)
- Author
- Barthes, Roland
- Publisher
- cape.uk, uk
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224029290
- ISBN 13
- 9780224029292
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 274 grams
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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About the Author
ROLAND BARTHES was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, he influenced the development of schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. He died in 1980.
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