"...the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence; to be no longer able to conceive duration, affectively or symbolically; the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short of impatiences, of everything which denies ripening."
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
photograph: Farooq Naeem, Islamabad Car Bombing, NY Times
2 comments:
wow... initially thought the first photo much be one of cai guo-qiang's pieces. the context changed it from beautiful to horrific.
I know, 53 Dead 266 hospitalized- so far. But a beautiful image. As image, there is no difference between the Marriott bombing, a cai guo-qiang piece and an photo from the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. They all have the same weight. But what different realities.
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