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Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida

Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida

Batchen, Geoffrey

Paperback

Photography History & CriticismPhotographers

ISBN10: 0262516667
ISBN13: 9780262516662
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 23 2011
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.59 Width: 7.24 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
An essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text.

Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the standard lexicon for discussions of photography; Barthes's understanding of photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and death have been invoked countless times in photographic discourse; and the current interest in vernacular photographs and the ubiquity of subjective, even novelistic, ways of writing about photography both owe something to Barthes. Photography Degree Zero, the first anthology of writings on Camera Lucida, goes beyond the usual critical orthodoxies to offer a range of perspectives on Barthes's important book.

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