Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes

Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes with Richard Howard (Translator)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

144 pages | first published 1980

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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 a...
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reflective 86%
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relaxing 2%

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