6/6/2023 0 Comments Camera obscura barthes'Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader' Guardian Strikingly personal, yet one of the most important early academic works on photography, Camera Lucida remains essential reading for anyone interested in the power of images. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout.Įxamining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Barthes personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of critical theory of the twentieth century.īarthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography.
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