Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes' final book - less a critical essay than a suite of valedictory meditations - is his most beautiful, and most painful

Observer

Of all his works it is the most accessible in language and the most revealing about the author. And effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader

Guardian

I am moved by the sense of discovery in Camera Lucida, by the glimpse of a return to a lost world

New Society