If she can, then I have obviously become very stupid with age. In fact his work contains a surprising paucity of. It has become a classic text on the subject yet Barthes was not a photographer, and had little time for colour images or ‘clever theories’ from the photographer’s perspective (such as Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Decisive Moment’). It remains to be seen if my daughter can make any sense of it. Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes, is an odd book. I advise anybody who has to study this to have a plentiful supply of headache pills, a large notebook, and access to a VERY good dictionary! I came across words that I never knew existed! Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer. I guess that whoever translated it from the original French must not have been a native english speaker. And the person or thing photographed is the target, the referent, a kind of little simulacrum. Having waited nearly a month for it to arrive from USA (carriage was double the purchase price) I thought I would take a look, before passing it on to my "Little Princess".īlimey. azines and newspapers, in books, albums, archives. She was told it is "essential reading" for her course. I bought this book for my daughter, who is an under-graduate at Brighton Uni, studying Editorial Photography. Camera Lucida - Product of a genius, or arty-farty?
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