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Camera Lucida:

Reflections on Photography
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981 - Photography - 119 pages
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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If you love photography, you will love this. - Goodreads
More a meditation on loss than on photography. - Goodreads
Quick and easy to read, very handy size too. - Goodreads
A lot of new insights and interesting thoughts. - Goodreads
Essential for anyone studying photography. - Goodreads
Very interesting approach on the art of photography - Goodreads

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User Review  - Miglė - Goodreads

A very pleasurable read about photography from a perspective of "the Spectator". A lot of new insights and interesting thoughts. Plus a very easy read. (or it seemed like one after Kant!) Read full review

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User Review  - Sarah - Goodreads

There were some glimmers of hope in this book, but on the whole it was incredibly frustrating. I thought photography was supposed to be fun... Read full review

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About the author (1981)

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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