Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Vintage Classics)
User Review - Dot - GoodreadsI hate the word pretentious: not only is it overused, it ironically suggests an intimate knowledge of what the person was trying to do and therefore is almost inevitably superior and pretentious as a ... Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Sarah - GoodreadsThere 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
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Jialu - Goodreadsa little out of date, i'd say. a lot of stuffs in the book are common sense nowadays. and there are tats too strong of his subjectivity. too much latin. you wanna share your idea or what?? it's ... Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Simone - GoodreadsRead this for my media theory class. I think it's an interesting way to think critically about photography. Also I like how small and personal a lot of it is. Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Youngki.bear - GoodreadsThis book upsets me, because it trying to talk about what photography does, Barthes completely ignores the role of the photographer. He claims that the viewer "sees" certain things in the photographs ... Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Sabrina - GoodreadsConfuses me to think this is considered 'staple' photographic theory. Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - parrhesiastes - GoodreadsThis little book, divided in two parts subdivided in 48 sections, could be an interesting venture beneath the superficiality of photography as an art; however, if you are already familiar with social ... Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Rise - Goodreads"It is the the misfortune (but also perhaps the voluptuous pleasure) of language not to be able to authenticate itself," says Barthes. For that we may need images and photographs to certify the text ... Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - A. Jesse - GoodreadsBecause I've found few books on theory of photography (please recommend some to me!), I had to read this one. It is Roland Barthes's ramblings on the experience of looking at family photos, or other ... Read full review
Review: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
User Review - Liz - GoodreadsThis was ok. I only read some for class. I felt like he was talking down to the reader and seemed a little condescending when speaking of photography. Although his analysis of what we feel when we ... Read full review
