An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography. Barthes personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of critical theory of the twentieth century.
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.
Of all his works it is the most accessible in language and the most
revealing about the author. And effortlessly, as if in passing, his
reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will
permanently affect the vision of the reader
*Guardian*
Roland Barthes' final book - less a critical essay than a suite of
valedictory meditations - is his most beautiful, and most
painful
*Observer*
Profoundly shaped the way the medium is regarded
*Guardian*
I am moved by the sense of discovery in Camera Lucida, by the
glimpse of a return to a lost world
*New Society*
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