What to Read After Camera Lucida
Readers who loved Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Camera Lucida is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Camera Lucida
On Photography
Regarding the Pain of Others
About Looking
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Towards a philosophy of photography
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The nature of photographs
Mythologies
Illuminations
Diane Arbus
The poetics of space
Picture theory
The Story of Art, 16th Edition (Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef//Story of Art)
Concerning The Spiritual In Art
The medium is the massage
Simulacra and Simulation
Image, music, text
History Of Beauty
The culture industry
Against Interpretation
S/Z
A world history of photography
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Immediate family