The book was published by the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography with the support of the Institut français d'Ukraine in 2022. The Ukrainian translation was made by Olena Chervonik, who has a degree in art history and is a practicing curator. Published two months before his death in 1980, Camera Lucida is Barthes's first and only book devoted to photography. It was one of the most important early academic books of criticism and theorization on photography. His examples deal with press photographs and advertising. He consistently returns to ideas expressed in previous chapters to complete them, or even deny them.īarthes's analysis of photography develops more detail and insight through a structuralist approach. Barthes considers photography as asymbolic, irreducible to the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind.Ĭamera Lucida consists of 48 chapters divided into two parts.īarthes does not present a fixed thesis, but instead, highlights the evolution of his thought process. The book investigates the effects of photography on the spectator. It is a novel and an analytical philosophical work at the same time. He was not a photographer, and in that sense, the book seems controversial. Barthes believed that such techniques permit the reader to participate in the work of art under study, rather than merely react to it. Олена Олександра Червоник & MOKSOP, Ĭamera Lucida is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. Reflections on Roland Barthess Camera Lucida, Edited by the notable photography scholar Geoffrey Batchen (MIT Press 2009). (La Chambre claire: Note sur la photographie)
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