Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes

146 pages first pub 1980 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics essays philosophy
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Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs – their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother...

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