14 January 2008

Building and Plane

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"Since the photograph is pure contingency and can be nothing else (it is always SOMETHING that is represented) [...] it immediately yields up those 'details' which constitute the very raw material of ethnological knowledge."
-Roland Barthes, 'Camera Lucida'

13 January 2008

11 January 2008

09 January 2008

House with Wires

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"But we worldly men have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes..."
-Titus Andronicus

Building with Wires and Trees

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"The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: 'There is the surface. Now think - or rather feel, intuit - what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.'"
-Susan Sontag, 'On Photography'

07 January 2008

Airplane and Wires

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Airplane and Wires

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"The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture."
-Susan Sontag, 'On Photography'