Odette England (ed.)

Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph

Publication date: January 2020

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This book marks the 40th anniversary of Roland Barthes’ renowned work Camera Lucida (La Chambre claire) in 2020. Artist Odette England invited more than 200 photography-based artists, writers, critics, curators, and historians from around the world to contribute an image or text that reflects on Barthes’ unpublished snapshot of his mother at age five.

This snapshot is known as the Winter Garden photograph. Barthes discusses it at length in Camera Lucida, but never reproduces it. It is one of the most famous unseen photographs in the world.

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About the book:

Odette England (ed.)
ISBN ‎9789053309377
Foreword by Charlotte Cotton
Essays by Douglas Nickel, Lucy Gallun, and Phillip Prodger
Design: Cara Buzzell
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Hardback, 24 x 28.5 cm, 320 Pages

Press:

The Guardian newspaper, April 15, 2020
The British Journal of Photography, February 2020
The Guardian
Financial Times: Summer Photography Books 2020
GUP magazine, #64
Lenscratch
Humble Arts Foundation
Fraction magazine
Conscientious Photography magazine
LFI blog – Book of the Month, April 2020
What Will You Remember?
De Standaard newspaper, April 17, 2020 (in Dutch)
Photolucida blog
F-Stop magazine
Nearest Truth (Episode 40) with Brad Feuerhelm
The Royal Photographic Society Journal, May 2020
De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch)
Sybylla J Smith Photobook Club, April, 2020)
Bird in Flight (in Russian)
El País (in Spanish)
Photo-Eye blog
LensCulture
L’Oeil de la Photographie
Collector Daily
History of Photography
LensCulture – Photobooks of 2020: Jim Casper
In The Luupe – Women*-Made Photobooks of 2020
EIKON #112 (in German)
Lenscratch – Favorite (photo)books of 2020
Juxtapoz



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