a photograph’s imaginary power
“…though I do not reject the power of magic, the object of the act of photography is something greater and higher. It consists in raising the real object to a new power — the...
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realisations of specific possibilities within the program of the camera.
Plausible Fictions
Suppose photographing is, as Flusser contended, an act of projecting, rather than “capturing” extant meaning. Rather than constituting records, then, photographs propose possibilities, sometimes in tremendously persuasive detail. Photographs are what comes of reaching...