Camera Lucida

And although photographs, as Barthes argues in Camera Lucida, induce death while willing to preserve life, here it seems to affirm, regardless, a life will.

Anne Couillaud: Day-to-Day (PHOTOS): Artists' Daily Practices Incorporate the Time Dimension Anne Couillaud 2011

And although photographs, as Barthes argues in Camera Lucida, induce death while willing to preserve life, here it seems to affirm, regardless, a life will.

Anne Couillaud: Day-to-Day (PHOTOS): Artists' Daily Practices Incorporate the Time Dimension Anne Couillaud 2011

In Camera Lucida, Barthes distinguishes between the "studium" and the "punctum" of the photograph.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

Sontag's On Photography (published in 1977) remains one of the cornerstones of photography criticism, as does Roland Barthes' more theoretically mischievous Camera Lucida (1980).

Photography so good it hurts Sean O 2010

Roland Barthes described in his 1980 book Camera Lucida going through his mother's photographs shortly after her death, and finding her portrait taken before he was born.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

In his Camera Lucida (Reflections on Photography), Roland Barthes distinguishes between the studium of a photograph, those elements of a photograph that provoke an interpretive (cultural, social, political) response, and the punctum of a photograph, the element of a photograph that punctures, or wounds – that which provokes an emotional response in the viewer by establishing a direct relationship between the viewer and the subject of the photograph.

Archive 2007-02-11 2007

In his Camera Lucida (Reflections on Photography), Roland Barthes distinguishes between the studium of a photograph, those elements of a photograph that provoke an interpretive (cultural, social, political) response, and the punctum of a photograph, the element of a photograph that punctures, or wounds – that which provokes an emotional response in the viewer by establishing a direct relationship between the viewer and the subject of the photograph.

Exposed 2007

Appearing in the author's native language just before his death, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, now published posthumously in English, will make the reader sorrier than ever that this effervescent critic is no longer among the living.

That Old Black and White Magic James, Clive 1981

He did not sketch freehand but made excellent drawings with his Camera Lucida.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

I took one Camera Lucida sketch of the instrument in the morning, dodging the heavy showers as well as I could; then, as the afternoon was extremely fine, I took another, with my head almost roasted by the sun.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896