Camera lucida : reflections on photography
Title:
Camera lucida : reflections on photography
JLCTITLE245:
Roland Barthes ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Chambre claire. English
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Hill and Wang, 2010.
Physical Description:
xix, 119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780374532338
General Note:
"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."--Title page verso.
Abstract:
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 Sontags On Photography.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author:
Variant Title:
Portion of title: Reflections on photography
Contents:
Speciality of the photograph -- The photograph unclassifiable -- Emotion as departure -- Operator, spectrum and spectator -- He who is photographed -- The spectator : chaos of tastes -- Photography as adventure -- A casual phenomenology -- Duality -- Studium and punctum -- Studium -- To inform -- To paint -- To surprise -- To signify -- To waken desire -- The unary photograph -- Co-presence of the studium and the punctum -- Punctum : partial feature -- Involuntary feature -- Satori -- After-the-fact and silence -- Blind field -- Palinode -- "One evening ..." --- History as separation -- To recognize -- The winter garden photograph -- The little girl -- Ariadne -- The family, the mother -- "That-has-been" -- The pose -- The luminous rays, color -- Amazement -- Authentication -- Stasis -- Flat death -- Time as punctum -- Private/Public -- To scrutinize -- Resemblance -- Lineage -- Camera Lucida -- The "air" -- The look -- Madness, pity -- The photograph tamed.
Language:
Translated from the French.