{"product_id":"photography-degree-zero-reflections-on-roland-barthess-camera-lucida-9780262516662","title":"Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes's 1980 book \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the standard lexicon for discussions of photography; Barthes's understanding of photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and death have been invoked countless times in photographic discourse; and the current interest in vernacular photographs and the ubiquity of subjective, even novelistic, ways of writing about photography both owe something to Barthes. \u003ci\u003ePhotography Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, the first anthology of writings on Camera Lucida, goes beyond the usual critical orthodoxies to offer a range of perspectives on Barthes's important book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotography Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e (the title links Barthes's first book, \u003ci\u003eWriting Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, to his last, Camera Lucida) includes essays written soon after Barthes's book appeared as well as more recent rereadings of it, some previously unpublished. The contributors' approaches range from psychoanalytical (in an essay drawing on the work of Lacan) to Buddhist (in an essay that compares the photographic flash to the mystic's light of revelation); they include a history of Barthes's writings on photography and an account of Camera Lucida and its reception; two views of the book through the lens of race; and a provocative essay by Michael Fried and two responses to it. The variety of perspectives included in Photography Degree Zero, and the focus on Camera Lucida in the context of photography rather than literature or philosophy, serve to reopen a vital conversation on Barthes's influential work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16597268\"\u003eGeoffrey Batchen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 7.24w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262516662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262516667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHO\"\u003ePhotography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHO010000\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHO\"\u003ePhotography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHO011000\"\u003eIndividual Photographers | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHO\"\u003ePhotography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHO005000\"\u003eCriticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBurning with Desire: The Conceptions of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eEach Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), both published by the MIT Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBurning with Desire: The Conceptions of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eEach Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), both published by the MIT Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMargaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. Her books include Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory and Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEduardo Cadava, a writer, translator, and scholar, is the author of \u003ci\u003eWords of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\u003c\/i\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Itinerant Languages of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and Professor of English at Princeton University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eOctober \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of \u003ci\u003ePassages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by the MIT Press), and other books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBurning with Desire: The Conceptions of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eEach Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), both published by the MIT Press.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44527784132845,"sku":"9780262516662","price":83.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_c6ea840b-4dfe-46d0-bc58-14b2f520bd6c.jpg?v=1701379414","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/photography-degree-zero-reflections-on-roland-barthess-camera-lucida-9780262516662","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}