Report on a work in progress, written against Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida
12Jan12
The brilliant James Elkins posts his lecture slides on his website. Here’s what looks like his notes prior to What Photography Is, a book I’m waiting anxiously to come into my University library.
http://jameselkins.com/images/stories/jamese/pdfs/camera-dolorosa.pdf
There’s lots more writing and notes and ideas to be had on his website: http://jameselkins.com/
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