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> there is a whole new appreciation of being there And yet, the always unsuccessful attempt of the photograph: "To annihilate itself as medium, to be no longer
by 50 3y ago
> there is a whole new appreciation of being there
And yet, the always unsuccessful attempt of the photograph: "To annihilate itself as medium, to be no longer a sign but the thing itself" (Barthes, Camera Lucida).
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoBarthes (and Sontag) were not photographers. Almost any photographer, or collector of photographs, would disagree with that goal.