Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, (Paperback)

from RajivC

Personally, I found this book to be of uneven quality. It has flashes where it is very good indeed, and then there are sections where I thought that he was meandering. It is not an easy book, and I did read it slowly. I may well read it again. The overall tone is sombre, and the parts that I like...

from DawsonP

i love this book as this is the only philosophical writing i have ever come acros in the subject of photographic art work.this unveils the hidden layers of text in the form of written by light, is a unique experience of graphic decoding.

from g0ldenboy

It's a convoluted, superfluous mess. My professor even admitted it should be called "What Turns Me On" by Roland Barthes for its subjective indulgence and nutty pluralism. Read in less than a day.

from dawnpen

..The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive..(p 6)

from knutskjaerven

This is probably the best, and most inspiring book on photography ever written. Inspirations for Barthes are both phenomenology and semiology.