In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy

"In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy

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

This lavish book marks the 40th anniversary of Barthes' renowned work Camera Lucida in 2020. Artist Odette England invited 199 of the world's best-known contemp

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was