Name: Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition
SKU: 52430770
Price: 619.00 TWD
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Author: Roland Barthes
ISBN: 9781784876012

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Physical Book

Author

Roland Barthes

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784876012

Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition

Roland Barthes (Author) · Vintage Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition "

Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout. Examining 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. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. 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.‘Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader’ Guardian

Roland Barthes

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(1915-1980) He was one of the most important intellectual figures to emerge in post-war France, and his writings are still, to this day, the subject of study and discussion. This French critic and essayist developed much of his work in an ambiguous space between linguistics and literature. Among his books, his semiological studies on the image gained great recognition. In 1977, he was appointed to the chair of Literary Semiology at the Collège de France, which was specially created for him on the advice of Michel Foucault. Barthes defined himself as "an uncertain subject": too literary for linguists, too linguist for literary critics. Perhaps it is this trait that has made him one of the most influential thinkers and theorists in his field.

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