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Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’ final book, is a work steeped in associations of death, absence an... more Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’ final book, is a work steeped in associations of death, absence and memory. Published one year after the author’s premature death in 1981 as a result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident, the book is a deeply personal meditation on the nature of photography. Barthes’ reasoning in Camera Lucida is mediated via an extended reflection upon one particular photograph of his recently deceased mother, Henriette Barthes, to whom he was very close and with whom he lived for many years. Nevertheless, despite the pall of grief with which the book is imbued, this essay sets out to discuss Barthes’ statement “Yet it is not (it seems to me) by Painting that Photography touches art, but by Theatre.” to understand its significance to photography beyond its parent text.
Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’ final book, is a work steeped in associations of death, absence an... more Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’ final book, is a work steeped in associations of death, absence and memory. Published one year after the author’s premature death in 1981 as a result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident, the book is a deeply personal meditation on the nature of photography. Barthes’ reasoning in Camera Lucida is mediated via an extended reflection upon one particular photograph of his recently deceased mother, Henriette Barthes, to whom he was very close and with whom he lived for many years. Nevertheless, despite the pall of grief with which the book is imbued, this essay sets out to discuss Barthes’ statement “Yet it is not (it seems to me) by Painting that Photography touches art, but by Theatre.” to understand its significance to photography beyond its parent text.