Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography | Roland Barthes

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	Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Roland Barthes Hill and Wang, 1982 - 119 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.

shocked

I am somewhat stunned and dismayed by the negative reviews of this book. In fact, it has seem to elicit a sense of vitriol in some.

It is a brilliant book. How does one state simply such a complicated phenomenon. One doesn't. Those who rated this book so poorly biggest gripe was the complexity of the writing. Well - it is a complex topic. But, I think Barthes beautifully and deftly counters this complexity with his personal reflections. The book is both a critical assessment of photography and an emotional one as well, and this is what makes it so wonderful.

It is not wholly unexpected that most all the negative reviews of this book come late in the day - in the ever increasing time of sound-bites, instant pleasures and generally non-reflective immersion.

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confession

i want to plug in the revolution (digital) to this book, in the style of mad libs.

meanwhile i haven't read camera lucida for a while.

Just this..

The only disparaging thing I can say about this book is that it caused me to purchase a better dictionary.

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