Camera Lucida

Informationen zum Autor Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980. Klappentext Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. Zusammenfassung Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.

Product details

• Authors: Roland Barthes, Barthes Roland
• Assisted by: Richard Howard (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.1993
• EAN: 9780099225416
• ISBN: 978-0-09-922541-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, Art techniques & principles, Western philosophy from c 1800, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Semiotics / semiology, Structuralism and Post-structuralism