INTERVENTION (3) PHOTOGRAPHIC FALLACY
It is impossible to re-connect properly honestly authentically with the past.
And, photography: it's a fallacy - a theoretical rhetorical insanity - to believe it can act as substitute (or 'fetish') for the real thing, the real person.
The loved lost body.
The fully embodied, sensate body is precisely what the photographic portrait is not.
The loved lost body.
The fully embodied, sensate body is precisely what the photographic portrait is not.
A photograph of someone who is no longer alive: it provides neither comfort nor solace. It only reminds one that that person is dead. Arrested in time, the subject refuses to change and fails to get old. The subject refuses and fails to recognise understand respond to who you have (had to) become - in order to survive him.
The photograph, like death, has silenced the subject.
The photograph, like death, has silenced the subject.
If I remember correctly the Swedish playwright, August Strindberg, believed in a kind of photographic telepathy. He believed he could communicate the subject's true identity, as well as communicate with him (or, in this case, her) through photography.
But, for our character, the power of the photograph is fading fast: badly fixed.
He is no longer sure, even, who the images portray.
But, for our character, the power of the photograph is fading fast: badly fixed.
He is no longer sure, even, who the images portray.
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