Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucidais perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studiumand punctum,coined by Barthes for t

"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as

In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural ord

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Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates. The central paradox this book explores is that at the moment of pho