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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
Out of stock on Amstelbooks but available on Abebooks