Barthes's Camera Lucida
1980 · Work
A meditation on photography written in mourning for his mother; weeks after publication Barthes is knocked down by a laundry van and dies.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, France
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- Renaissance (1400)
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- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
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