- Published: 5 October 1993
- ISBN: 9780099225416
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $22.99
Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
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- Published: 5 October 1993
- ISBN: 9780099225416
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $22.99
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