From this reading I pulled three quotations that I thought were powerful to me. As a photography major, I share a certain perspective on photographs and how they are perceived. The relationship between a photograph and the viewer, I believe, is a real connection of the mind, body and ones perception. A photograph takes multiple forms, but it simply captures what has been. The way a photographer sees the world is what each photograph expresses. It is up to the viewer to perceive the photograph to get that view. Although I cannot say that the photographers intensions will always get across, but he/she serves as a bridge to the viewer to spark a new exploration of thoughts and interpretations.
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star. A sort of umbilical cord links the body of the photographed thing to my gaze: light, though impalpable, is here a carnal medium, a skin I share with anyone who has been photographed.”
“The Photograph does not necessarily say what is no longer, but only and for certain what has been.”
“ This distinction is decisive. In front of a photograph, our consciousness does not necessarily take the nostalgic path of memory (how many photographs are outside of individual time), but for every photograph existing in the world, the path of certainty: the Photograph's essence is to ratify what it represents.”
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