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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