Book · 1980 · Nonfiction

Camera Lucida

Name: Camera Lucida
Author: Roland Barthes

Hill and Wang · 119 pages

★ 6.5 editorial score

Grieving his mother, Barthes asks what a photograph is and answers with the punctum, the detail that wounds you. Photography criticism has argued in the vocabulary he invented here ever since.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Photography Emotions Society Criticism

Time

1980

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