Camera Lucida
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Camera Lucida is Roland Barthes’s influential philosophical meditation on photography, memory, and mortality, blending personal reflection with critical theory.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Roland Barthes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
punctum
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studium ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly influential in humanities ⓘ |
| discusses |
ontology of the photographic image
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relationship between photography and death ⓘ subjectivity of photographic meaning ⓘ |
| field |
aesthetics
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media studies ⓘ semiotics ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Éditions du Seuil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
critical theory
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literary theory ⓘ philosophy of photography ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | essay ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Part One
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Part Two ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loss
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subjectivity ⓘ the gaze ⓘ time ⓘ truth and representation in images ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary photography theory
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literary criticism ⓘ visual culture studies ⓘ |
| languageOfEdition | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
grief
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memory ⓘ mortality ⓘ photography ⓘ representation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of specific photographs
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blend of personal reflection and theory ⓘ meditation on the author’s mother ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| publisherOfEnglishEdition | Hill and Wang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Mythologies
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Roland Barthes (1975 autobiographical text) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | two-part essay ⓘ |
| titleInOriginalLanguage | La Chambre claire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatorIntoEnglish | Richard Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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