Camera Lucida (lat. Camera lucida, literally “bright room”) is an auxiliary optical device for drawing and copying objects in the future. Between the eyes of the drawer and a sheet of paper is a prism, established in such a way that the light is reflected from the copied object and falls on the paper, creating an image on it.
“Camera Lucida. Commentary on the photograph” (1980) Roland Bart is one of the first fundamental studies of the nature of the photograph and at the same time an Ommage of the deceased mother of the author. Interest in the photographs of 1870, who accidentally fell into the hands of Bart, caused a desire to find out in what a significant feature the photograph stands out from the entire aggregate of images. As you wondered the issue of classification, systematization of photographs, the philosopher builds his own phenomenology, introducing the concepts of Studium and Punctum. Studium denotes the cultural, linguistic and political interpretation of photography, PUNCTUM – a purely personal emotional meaning that allows you to establish a direct bile …
Author
Bart Roland
Editor
Kanyukova Polina
Translator
Ryklin M.K.
Artist
Bondarenko Andrey
Publisher
Hell Margin, 2011
Genre
Culturology. Art history
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