Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outsi…

If you like book Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

An Object of Beauty

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms…
Buy this book on Amazon
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)

New York Times Bestseller

The project that captured a nation's imagination.

The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary.

You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ways of Seeing

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art

Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series…
Buy this book on Amazon
Good Faeries/Bad Faeries

"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence,…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Story of Art

Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art historical literature, this book reflects the vast knowledge, insights, and expertise of one of this cen…
Buy this book on Amazon
Griffin & Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1)

Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. —Sabine

But Griffin had never met a wom…
Buy this book on Amazon
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwar…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alp…
Buy this book on Amazon
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A mani…
Buy this book on Amazon
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came s…
Buy this book on Amazon
Faeries

Edited by David Larkin. Two talented artists explore the world of faeries in myths, legends, and folklore.
Buy this book on Amazon
1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (1000 Series)

Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color book Journals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiratio…
Buy this book on Amazon
Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few …
Buy this book on Amazon
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.

Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly simi…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gaping…
Buy this book on Amazon
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it’s okay to like Comic Sa…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Natural Way to Draw

Great for the beginner and the expert, this book offers readers exercises to improve their work.
Buy this book on Amazon
Anatomy for the Artist (Spiral Edition)

It’s the classic in its fielda reference work of unparalleled importance for all professionals and students of art. This superb art manual is the best guide available on a subject that has fascinated …
Buy this book on Amazon
On Photography

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When …
Buy this book on Amazon
Amphigorey (Amphigorey, #1)

The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawi…
Buy this book on Amazon