La chambre claire
Barthes, Roland30 USD
Date
1980
Category
Linguistics
Description
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. It is simultaneously an inquiry into the nature and essence of photography and a eulogy to Barthes' late mother. The book investigates the effects of photography on the spectator.
Excerpt
What the photograph reproduces to infinity
has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically
repeats what could never be repeats existentially.
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