Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland 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. This groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida as one of the most important books of theory on the subject, along with Susan Sontag's On Photography.

• On Photography
• Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
• Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art)
• Regarding the Pain of Others
• A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
• Image-Music-Text
• The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
• BetterPhoto Basics: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Taking Photos Like a Pro
• The Photograph (Oxford History of Art)
• Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews