Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barong>theong>s, Roland / Dyer, Geoff, PUBLISHER: Hill & Wang, A graceful, contemplative volume, "Camera Lucida "was first published in . Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barong>theong>s presents photography as being outside ong>theong> codes of language or culture, acting on ong>theong> body as much as on ong>theong> mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any oong>theong>r medium. This groundbreaking approach established "Camera Lucida "as one of ong>theong> most important books of ong>theong>ory on ong>theong> subject, along with Susan Sontag's "On Photography."