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jamorley's review against another edition
4.0
Barthes hated: having his picture taken, the unury photograph, cousins
Barthes loved: the sound of a mechanic shutter, his mum.
An interesting perspective on the link between photography and death. Barthes champions a purely subjective mode of seeing as the only way to uncover (or create) the punctum that gives a photograph its worth, while the studium—the objective meaning—is relegated to the status of "usual blah-blah."
He agrees with Sontag that the proliferation of photographic images "completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it."
Barthes loved: the sound of a mechanic shutter, his mum.
An interesting perspective on the link between photography and death. Barthes champions a purely subjective mode of seeing as the only way to uncover (or create) the punctum that gives a photograph its worth, while the studium—the objective meaning—is relegated to the status of "usual blah-blah."
He agrees with Sontag that the proliferation of photographic images "completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it."
iamrita's review against another edition
5.0
tha book that i read, and then i read again, and then again and again.
ericfheiman's review against another edition
5.0
If you can tolerate the postmodern theory jargon (mostly in the first half), Barthes' treatise on photography is just as provocative today as it was when he wrote it almost 3 decades ago.
michaeldebonis's review against another edition
4.0
I need to read this again. I don't think I was in the right mindset the first time. I think you have to approach this book as a conversation Barthes is having with himself. There is a conversational fluidity to his concepts that doesn't hold up to rigorous analysis.
holynachoes's review against another edition
informative
reflective
pretty interesting. definitely made me rethink my relationship with the camera.
raquelssilva's review against another edition
5.0
http://leiturasmarginais.blogspot.pt/2012/10/a-camera-lucida-de-barthes.html
rc90041's review against another edition
5.0
One of my favorite books by Barthes. A brilliant meditation on the nature of the photograph, uncanniest of art forms, in its "intractable reality" that is undeniable in its representation of a previous existence, and a document of something--time--irrevocably lost. I believe this was my second read, but it's hard to say: Barthes has a way of articulating thoughts I've had--but been unable to fully articulate--that made it difficult, during this latest read, to disentangle which thoughts were my own, which were Barthes's that I was reading for the first time, and which were Barthes's articulations of my own thoughts that I had read earlier and had incorporated as my own.