A review by rc90041
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes

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.