| Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Howard, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374532338 ISBN-13: 9780374532338 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Photography | Criticism - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 770.1 |
| LCCN: 2010930829 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.25" (0.32 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barthes, Roland: - Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books, including Camera Lucida, Mythologies, and A Lover's Discourse.Howard, Richard: - Richard Howard is a poet, scholar, teacher, critic, and translator. Paper Trail is published simultaneously by FSG with Howard's Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003. He teaches at Columbia University and is poetry editor of The Paris Review. |