Photography degree zero : reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera lucida

Batchen, Geoffrey. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780262013253 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0262013258 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 287 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Palinode : an introduction to Photography degree zero / Geoffrey Batchen -- Re-reading Camera lucida / Victor Burgin -- The pleasure of the phototext / Jane Gallop -- What is a photograph? / Margaret Iversen -- Touching photographs : Roland Barthes's "mistaken" identification / Margaret Olin -- Buddha Barthes : what Barthes saw in photography (that he didn't in literature) / Jay Prosser -- Notes on love and photography / Eduardo Cadava and Paola Cortés-Rocca -- Barthes's Punctum / Michael Fried -- What do we want photography to be? : a response to Michael Fried / James Elkins -- Notes on the Punctum / Rosalind E. Krauss -- Camera lucida, circa 1980 / Gordon Hughes -- Black and blue : the shadows of Camera lucida / Carol Mavor -- Race and reproduction in Camera lucida / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Camera lucida: another little history of photography / Geoffrey Batchen.