Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Barthes, Roland

ISBN 10: 0374532338 / ISBN 13: 9780374532338

Editore: Hill and Wang, 2010

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Riassunto:

Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.

Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, 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.

Informazioni sull'autore:

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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Titolo: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Casa editrice: Hill and Wang
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good