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Camera lucida : reflections on photography /

By: Language: English Original language: French Series: Vintage classicsPublication details: London : Vintage, 2000.Description: 119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0099225417
  • 9780099225416
Other title:
  • Reflections on photography
Uniform titles:
  • Chambre claire. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TR642 .B3713 2000
Contents:
Part one 1. Specialty of the photograph -- 2. The photograph unclassicfiable -- 3. Emotion as departure -- 4. Operators, spectrum and spetator -- 5. He who is photographed -- 6. The spectator : chaos of tastes -- 7. Photography as adventure -- 8. A casual phenomenology -- 9. Duality -- 10. Studium and Punctum -- 11. Studium -- 12. To inform -- 13. To paint -- 14. To surprise -- 15. To signify -- 16. To waken desire -- 17. The unary photograph -- 18. Co-presence of the Studium and the Punctum -- 19. Punctum : partial feature -- 20. Involuntary feature -- 21. Satori -- 22. After-the-fact and silence -- 23. Palinode -- Part two 25. "One evening -- " -- 26. History as separation -- 27. To recognize -- 28. The winter garden photograph -- 29. The little girl -- 30. Ariadne -- 31. The family, the mother -- 32. "That-has-been" -- 33. The pose -- 34. The luminous rays, color -- 35. Amazement -- 36. Authentication -- 37. Stasis -- 38. Flat death -- 39. Times as Punctum -- 40. Private/public -- 41. To scrutinize -- 42. Resemblance -- 43. Lineage -- 44. Camera Lucida -- 45. the "Air" -- 46. The look -- 47. Madness, Pity -- 48. The photograph tamed.
Summary: "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 in his own mind."--Back cover.
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Translation of: La chambre claire.

Part one 1. Specialty of the photograph -- 2. The photograph unclassicfiable -- 3. Emotion as departure -- 4. Operators, spectrum and spetator -- 5. He who is photographed -- 6. The spectator : chaos of tastes -- 7. Photography as adventure -- 8. A casual phenomenology -- 9. Duality -- 10. Studium and Punctum -- 11. Studium -- 12. To inform -- 13. To paint -- 14. To surprise -- 15. To signify -- 16. To waken desire -- 17. The unary photograph -- 18. Co-presence of the Studium and the Punctum -- 19. Punctum : partial feature -- 20. Involuntary feature -- 21. Satori -- 22. After-the-fact and silence -- 23. Palinode -- Part two 25. "One evening -- " -- 26. History as separation -- 27. To recognize -- 28. The winter garden photograph -- 29. The little girl -- 30. Ariadne -- 31. The family, the mother -- 32. "That-has-been" -- 33. The pose -- 34. The luminous rays, color -- 35. Amazement -- 36. Authentication -- 37. Stasis -- 38. Flat death -- 39. Times as Punctum -- 40. Private/public -- 41. To scrutinize -- 42. Resemblance -- 43. Lineage -- 44. Camera Lucida -- 45. the "Air" -- 46. The look -- 47. Madness, Pity -- 48. The photograph tamed.

"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 in his own mind."--Back cover.

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