Roland Barthes
La chambre claire: note sur la photographie.
Paris: Gallimard Seuil, 1980. Cahiers du Cinema Gallimard. First edition. 192 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.
Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium."