Camera lucida : reflections on photography / Roland Barthes ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barthes, Roland.

Contributor:

Dyer, Geoff.

Standardized Title:

Chambre claire. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Photography / Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Photography / Philosophy.

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

xix, 119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Other Title:

Reflections on photography

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Part One: 1. Speciality of the photograph

2. The photograph unclassifiable

3. Emotion as departure

4. Operator, spectrum and spectator

5. He who is photographed

6. The spectator: chaos of tastes

7. Photography as adventure

8. A casual phenomenology

9. Duality

10. Studium and punctum

11. Studium

12. To inform

13. To paint

14. To surprise

15. To signify

16. To waken desire

17. The unary photograph

18. Co-presence of the studium and the punctum

19. Punctum: partial feature

20. Involuntary feature

21. Satori

22. After-the-fact and silence

23. Blind field

24. Palinode

PART TWO

25. "One evening..."

- 26. History as separation

27. To recognize

28. The winter garden photograph

29. The little girl

30. Ariadne

31. The family, the mother

32. "That-has-been"

33. The pose

34. The luminous rays, color

35. Amazement

36. Authentication

37. Stasis

38. Flat death

39. Time as punctum

40. Private/Public

41. To scrutinize

42. Resemblance

43. Lineage

44. Camera Lucida

45.The "air"

46. The look

47. Madness, pity

48. The photograph tamed.

Notes:

"Foreward copyright 2010 by Geoff Dyer ... Originally published in 1980 by Éditions du Seuil, France ... published in 1981 in the United States by Hill Wang."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780374532338

0374532338

OCLC:

671819280