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Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes · Essays and theory · 1980 · Cahiers du cinéma / Gallimard / Seuil
About the book
Studium and punctum; Barthes's last book published in his lifetime.
Publication
- Author
- Roland Barthes
- Category
- Essays and theory
- Original title
- La Chambre claire: Note sur la photographie
- Original language
- French
- First edition
- 1980, Cahiers du cinéma / Gallimard / Seuil, Paris
- Later editions and translations
- English edition Camera Lucida in 1981. Not written by a photographer.
- Date precision
- Sources give the year only
Sources
Written by the FilmAnalysis editors; facts follow the sources above, the reading of the pictures is ours.