Author | Koen Wessing |
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Pages | 57 |
Signed | No |
ISBN | 9060124014 |
Publisher | Van Gennep |
Publishing date | 1978 |
Publishing place | Amsterdam |
Language | Dutch |
Edition | First edition |
Binding | Softcover |
Book condition | Collectible; Very Good |
Condition description | minor soiling to wrapper; else fine |
Cover condition | Fine |
Dimensions (cm hxb) | 26x21 |
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Nicaragua '78
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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)..."
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