Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by admin, on May 19, 2009 | category: Camera, Camera, Lucida, Paperback, Photography, Reflections | 10 comments
Review
“This is a great book–flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the ‘intractable reality’ of the human condition.”–Douglas Davis, Newsweek — Review
Review”This is a great (more…)
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camera lucida
Great book for ALL photographers. It is out of print and available on here for a great price. Everytime I have read it, it offers new insight on how I view photography
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Excellent Book!
I got it a few weeks ago, it is an excellent edition, eventhough is at a very good price it has a very good printing quality, nice paper (thick an white) and very good…
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confession
i want to plug in the revolution (digital) to this book, in the style of mad libs.
meanwhile i haven’t read camera lucida for a while.
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Just this..
The only disparaging thing I can say about this book is that it caused me to purchase a better dictionary.
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shocked
I am somewhat stunned and dismayed by the negative reviews of this book. In fact, it has seem to elicit a sense of vitriol in some.
It is a brilliant book.
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Totally disappointing
Sorry to say, although Roland Barthes is an icon to some. This short book is self-indulgent, unintelligible, and therefore useless.
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You’ll literally need a Ph.D. to understand this book
If you’re thinking of reading this hoping for some insight on the creative process of the photographer, don’t look to this ponderous, jargon-laden critique of “The Photograph”…
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For the people…
After reading these last few negative reviews i had to write in about this, one of the most amazing books i have ever read.
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Barthes on Art, not just Photography.
Enclosed among these “Reflections on Photography” is a provocative theory of art in general, of what gives art the power to keep us looking.
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Heavy going
It is my belief that people who really know what they are talking about can explain their thoughts clearly.