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The challenge of photography is to challenge photography. To challenge photography is to challenge time. The challenge of time is in the Other. Who like God? Everyone answers in his/her own image. Featured Image: Giuseppe CALÌ. n.d. Life and Death [oils]. Private Collection. Photograph by the author.
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Text is a symbol, symbolically standing for the latent image. Hence the reason why the symbol cannot be indexical. It is the latent image which is indexical, consistently indexing memory; and needlessly so, being itself memory, which comes from/is the world. The image is always iconic, bearing resemblance to the index, which indexes nothing but…
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It is impossible to know anything. Knowledge is a chimera. If it wasn’t for the textbook in front of you, you wouldn’t have even come to know the brain. The brain is an excellent example; the quintessential example of a model modelled on a model modelled to model one into a model thinking agent. The…
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The photograph obtained through the analogue photography apparatus is an abstraction. The photograph obtained through the digital photography apparatus is a further abstraction. Realities (in this case, digital), such as social media, aim at reinserting these abstractions into a space-time continuum, which is yet another abstraction. (The digital, just like the physical snapshot photo album…
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The human eye does not always see in the same way that the photography apparatus sees (here by the term photography apparatus we mean its common iterations, such as film cameras, medium format cameras, DSLR cameras, mirrorless cameras, bridge cameras, compact digital cameras, smartphone cameras, action cameras, etc.). I can be shown an image of…
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My Being is for Time to affect itself. I can pretend it is the same for the Other. One way of describing the manner through which Time affects itself would be something like: “This took x minutes to complete.” One would have very well said the same thing had one stated: “Once upon a time…”…
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Text is the linear continuity of Time. Image is the linear circularity of Time. (Time puts things in order.) Needless to say, one necessarily sees past reality. In the beginning there might have been the Word; in the end there is only an image. Reality is a linguistic contrivance. One retains (takes) an ‘impression’ of…
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The brain is a model. A visual percept is an internal representation of an external phenomenon. There is no such thing as an internal percept of an internal phenomenon. An internal percept is inside; it being inside, it is inside. An internal representation of an internal phenomenon is an internal representation. That internal representation is…
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Hearing is vision, othered. At some point in history, increasing image resolution started to only have an effect on film, leaving negligible obvious impact on photography. That is tantamount to saying that with the tremendous increase in image resolution evinced in the last decade or so, perceived motion happened to have been affected more drastically…
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The originary is the origin. There is nothing beyond the origin. Place yourself at a desk facing an open window. Put blank paper in front of you and take hold of a pencil. Start drawing the scene appearing outside the open window that is facing you. Set yourself an infinite amount of time to complete…
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