Camera Lucida (book)
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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
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On Photography
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On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by American writer Susan Sontag. The book originated from a series of essays Sontag published in The New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.
Camera Lucida (book)
…William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe and Nadar, in addition to a photograph from Barthes' private collection. Camera Lucida, along with Susan Sontag's On Photography, was one of the most important early academic books of criticism and theorization on photography. Neither writer was a photographer, however, and both…
Cover of the first edition