Camera lucida : reflections on photography

Roland Barthes

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Summary: A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium. This groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida as one of the most important books of theory on the subject, along with Susan Sontags On Photography.

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Part One: 1. Speciality of the photograph -- 2. The photograph unclassifiable -- 3. Emotion as departure -- 4. Operator, spectrum and spectator -- 5. He who is photographed -- 6. The spectator: chaos of tastes -- 7. Photography as adventure -- 8. A casual phenomenology -- 9. Duality -- 10. Studium and punctum -- 11. Studium -- 12. To inform -- 13. To paint -- 14. To surprise -- 15. To signify -- 16. To waken desire -- 17. The unary photograph -- 18. Co-presence of the studium and the punctum -- 19. Punctum: partial feature -- 20. Involuntary feature -- 21. Satori -- 22. After-the-fact and silence -- 23. Blind field -- 24. Palinode -- PART TWO -- 25. "One evening ..." -- 26. History as separation -- 27. To recognize -- 28. The winter garden photograph -- 29. The little girl -- 30. Ariadne -- 31. The family, the mother -- 32. "That-has-been" -- 33. The pose -- 34. The luminous rays, color -- 35. Amazement -- 36. Authentication -- 37. Stasis -- 38. Flat death -- 39. Time as punctum -- 40. Private/Public -- 41. To scrutinize -- 42. Resemblance -- 43. Lineage -- 44. Camera Lucida -- 45. The "air" -- 46. The look -- 47. Madness, pity -- 48. The photograph tamed