Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

by Richard Howard (Translator), Roland Barthes (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 15 Jul 1993

ISBN 10: 0099225417
ISBN 13: 9780099225416
Book Overview: 'Roland Barthes' final book - less a critical essay than a suite of valedictory meditations - is his most beautiful, and most painful' Observer

Media Reviews
Of all his works it is the most accessible in language and the most revealing about the author. And effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader * Guardian *
I am moved by the sense of discovery in Camera Lucida, by the glimpse of a return to a lost world * New Society *
Profoundly shaped the way the medium is regarded -- Geoff Dyer * Guardian *
Author Bio
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and 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.