| Description |
119 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Specialty of the photograph -- The photography unclassifiable -- Emotion as departure -- Operator, spectrum and spectator -- He who is photographed -- The spectator: chaos of tastes -- Photography as adventure -- A casual phenomenology -- Duality -- Studium and punctum -- Studium -- To inform -- To paint -- to surprise -- To signify -- To waken desire -- The unary photography -- Co-presence of the studium and the punctum -- Punctum: partial feature -- Involunatry feature -- Satori -- After-the-fact and silence -- Blind field -- Palinode -- "One evening ..." -- History as separation -- To recognize -- The winter garden photograph -- The little girl -- Ariadne -- The family, the mother -- "That-has-been" -- The pose -- The luminous rays, color -- Amazement -- Authentication -- Stasis -- Flat death -- Time as punctum -- Private/public -- To scrutinize -- Resemblance -- Lineage -- Camera lucida -- The "air" -- The look -- Madness, pity -- The photograph tames |
| Summary |
"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris |
| Notes |
Translation of: La chambre claire |
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Originally published in French [Paris?] : Editions du Seuil, c1980 under title Chambre claire |
| Subject |
Photography -- Philosophy.
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Photography, Artistic -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Photography.
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| Author |
Howard, Richard, 1929-
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McDonald, Fiona, (Lecturer)
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| LC no. |
81004649 |
| ISBN |
0374521344 (paperback1994) |
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0809013983 (paperback) |
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0809033402 |
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9780374521349 (paperback) |
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