Camera Lucida is a lyrical, tenderly written, and carefully constructed book, partly a reflection on the nature of photography and partly an elegy to his late mother. He embarked on the book after happening upon a photograph the perfect photograph of ...
Camera Lucida is a lyrical, tenderly written, and carefully constructed book, partly a reflection on the nature of photography and partly an elegy to his late mother. He embarked on the book after happening upon a photograph the perfect photograph of her as a child, which he lovingly calls the Winter Garden Photograph. “There I was,” he writes, “alone in the apartment where she had died, looking at these pictures of my mother, one by one, under the lamp, gradually moving back in time with her, looking for the truth of the face I had loved. And I found it” . “I studied the little girl and at last rediscovered my mother”
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