Camera Lucida

Reflections on Photography

Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard

Hill and Wang

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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.

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"This is a great book--flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition."--Douglas Davis, Newsweek

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Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard

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.

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Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
May 1982
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ISBN: 9780374521349
ISBN10: 0374521344
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 119 pages
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October 2010
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