Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, ISBN-13: 978-0374532338

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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, ISBN-13: 978-0374532338

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• Publisher: ‎ Hill and Wang (October 12, 2010)
• Language: ‎ English
• 144 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0374532338
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0374532338

Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’s personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book he published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.

Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, 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.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE

I Specialty of the Photograph 3

2 The Photograph Unclassifiable 4

3 Emotion as Departure 8

4 OPERATOR, SPECTRUM and SPECTATOR 9

5 He Who Is Photographed IO

6 The SPECTATOR: Chaos of Tastes r6

7 Photography as Adventure r8

8 A Casual Phenomenology 20

9 Duality 23

10 STUDIUM and PUNCTUM 25

11 Studium 27

12 To Inform 28

13 To Paint 30

14 To Surprise 32

15 To Signify 34

16 To Waken Desire 38

17 The Unary Photograph 40

18 Co-presence of the STUDIUM and the PUNCTUM 42

19 PUNCTUM: Partial Feature 43

20 Involuntary Feature 47

21 Satori 49

22 After-the-Fact and Silence 51

23 Blind Field 55

24 Palinode 6o

PART Two

25 “one evening … ” 63

26 History as Separation 64

27 To Recognize 65

28 The Winter Garden Photograph 67

29 The Little Girl 71

30 Ariadne 73

31 The Family, the Mother 74

32 ”THAT-HAS-BEEN” 76

33 The Pose 78

34 The Luminous Rays, Color 8o

35 Amazement 82

36 Authentication 85

37 Stasis 89

38 Flat Death 92

39 Time as PUNCTUM 94

40 Private/ Public 97

41 To Scrutinize 99

42 Resemblance 100

43 Lineage 103

44 CAMERA LUCIDA 106

45 The “Air” 107

46 The Look 111

47 Madness, Pity 115

48 The Photograph Tamed 117

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books, including Camera Lucida, Mythologies, and A Lover’s Discourse.

Richard Howard is a poet, scholar, teacher, critic, and translator. Paper Trail is published simultaneously by FSG with Howard’s Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003. He teaches at Columbia University and is poetry editor of The Paris Review.

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