Category Archives: Camera Lucida

Reading/Discussion of Roland Barthes’ interrogation of the Photograph, as a thing-in-itself.

Reading in a well lit room: Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida

So . . . our first foray off of the Time Magazine list. And one which has some relevance to the book just finished: Atwood’s The Blind Assassin. But, to that in a bit . . .
Barthes is attempting to get at the idea of Photography or the Photograph (capitalized whenever used [...]