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Nicaragua '78
€56.00
It was a photograph of Nicaragua by Wessing that Roland Barthes referred to in a passage in his seminal work on the theory of photography, Camera Lucida: "I was glancing through an illustrated magazine. A photograph made me pause. Nothing very extraordinary: the (photographic) banality of a rebellion in Nicaragua: a ruined street, two helmeted soldiers on patrol; behind them, two nuns. Did this photograph please me? Interest me? Intrigue me? Not even. Simply, it existed (for me)..."
Bibliographic Details
| Author | Koen Wessing |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Van Gennep |
| Place of publication | Amsterdam |
| Year | 1978 |
| Edition | First edition |
| Binding | Softcover |
| ISBN | 9060124014 |
| Collation | 57 pp. |
| Language | Dutch |
| Dimensions | 26x21 |
Condition Report
| Condition | Very Good |
|---|---|
| Cover | Fine |
| Notes | minor soiling to wrapper; else fine |
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