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Author Koen Wessing
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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