Saturday, June 16, 2007

barthes, roland

"It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with it, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus."

[r. barthes, camera lucida]

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