“In order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes.” – Roland Barthes Forty years ago, French literary theorist Roland Barthes wrote the Camera Lucida (La Chambre claire), a book and way of thinking that has influenced generations of photographers. Published in 1980, shortly before his death, the

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