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Author: Roland Barthes
ISBN : 0374532338
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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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• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Hill and Wang; Reprint edition (October 12, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374532338
• ISBN-13: 978-0374532338
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.4 x 8.1 inches
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{PRETITLE} Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography {POSTTITLE}

Quite an interesting documentary of photography by Barthes. I think books like this, and Sontag, are interesting to read as they help us gain perspectives from photography from various approaches. This is simply a nice book to read that happens to reflect on what gifts/memories that images catch and leave behind for society to come.

It is philosophical in the sense that is questions what images do, but again a nice story in that it moves from image to image discussing them. Images of places that make you want to live there, images of people and how these images capture the essence of time, culture, and the gift of being alive.

It's a great read, for me, as a photographer going to my shelf wanting something to read on photography other than about apertures and technical underpinnings. Of course they are related, and unarguably necessary, for good photography - but like Sontag you experience some of the hidden games of photography.

For the deep thinking photographers out there, and admittedly not for all.

By Stephen Pellerine

Barthes' book is eloquent and full of insight. However, this 2010 paperback edition is awful . . . the paper is cheap and scratchy and feels like it won't last. I wish publishing companies would realize that I buy actual books (not electronic texts) because I value print quality. Will be sending this edition back and looking for a good used version.

By TheStranger