Roland Barthes on photography
Roland Barthes on photography: the critical tradition in perspective Nancy M. Shawcross
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1997.
ISBN: 0813014697
DDC: 770.1
LCC: TR183
Summary:
Nancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context
of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins,
rejections, and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and
distinction from other theorists of photography such as Baudelaire
and Benjamin and examines his thought in the context of postmodern
discussions of photography that followed it. Barthes enjoyed a long
and shifting relationship with photography, first using it as
metaphor, then exploring its use in movies, film stills, political
campaigns, and popular photographic essays, and finally confronting
it anew upon the death of his mother. Though his last book, Camera
Lucida, has enormously influenced the study of visual images in the
arts and humanities, this is the first examination in English of
Barthes' work on the visual arts. Shawcross brings together and
analyzes for the first time - in any language - all of Barthes'
writings, both direct and indirect, about visual media in their many
forms.
Nancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context
of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins,
rejections, and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and
distinction from other theorists of photography such as Baudelaire
and Benjamin and examines his thought in the context of postmodern
discussions of photography that followed it. Barthes enjoyed a long
and shifting relationship with photography, first using it as
metaphor, then exploring its use in movies, film stills, political
campaigns, and popular photographic essays, and finally confronting
it anew upon the death of his mother. Though his last book, Camera
Lucida, has enormously influenced the study of visual images in the
arts and humanities, this is the first examination in English of
Barthes' work on the visual arts. Shawcross brings together and
analyzes for the first time - in any language - all of Barthes'
writings, both direct and indirect, about visual media in their many
forms.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127) and index.
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