Ghost Image

by Hervé Guibert

Book Overview

Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays--meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems--and not a single image. Herv Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text. Some essays talk of Guibert's parents and friends, some describe old family photographs and films, and spinning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022613234X
• ISBN13: 9780226132341
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.1"