First Ukrainian Translation of Barthes’ Camera Lucida

History of Art Trinity doctoral student Olena Chervonik has published the first translation of Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida from French into Ukrainian.

Camera Lucida was first published in 1980 and is an important early academic works of criticism and theory dedicated to photography, particularly its effects on the viewer. 

Olena Chervonik is originally from Dnipro in Ukraine; her DPhil research looks at the invention of photography, specifically the role of the British astronomer and polymath John Herschel as one of the important inventors of the medium.

Read the full article on Trinity’s website here.