Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition

Excellent

This has not aged well. It’s tough to read, somewhat misogynistic and at least half is pretentiously waffling over the same points repeatedly. There are some wonderful points in here such as the concept of studium and punctum, or a photograph effectively being invisible, but these points are lost amid the anecdotal ramblings of someone who wasn’t a photographer. The cover is incredible, but many photos mentioned by the author aren’t in the book, requiring the reader to dig around or have an existing broad knowledge of the subject. I’m glad I’ve read it as finishing felt like an achievement.Borrow someone else’s, skim through, return it.

My son needed this for his degree. He found it very interesting.

Educación

Buena edición, interesante la lectura de este libro sobre la esencia de la fotografía.

Makes you think

Often recommended as a classic book about photography, this philosophical treatise starts well enough, but slowly devolves into repetition. If photography is important to you in a deep way, you probably should give this slim volume a chance. In our modern preoccupation with bits and bytes of superficial information, you may not finish it.