![]() ![]() Photography Degree Zero includes essays written soon after Barthes's book appeared as well as more recent rereadings of it, some previously unpublished. ![]() Photography Degree Zero, the first anthology of writings on Camera Lucida, goes beyond the usual critical orthodoxies to offer a range of perspectives on Barthes's important book. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the standard lexicon for discussions of photography Barthes's understanding of photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and death have been invoked countless times in photographic discourse and the current interest in vernacular photographs and the ubiquity of subjective, even novelistic, ways of writing about photography both owe something to Barthes. Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. An essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text. ![]()
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