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If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times I remain with it? I look at it, I scrutinize it, ...more

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Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is...more

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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language tr...more

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language tr...more

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I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voic...more

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Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it occurs in the field of the photog...more

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It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the...more

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Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into t...more

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What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: She is going to die: I shudder...more

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Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the ...more

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I imagine that the essential gesture of the Operator is to surprise something or someone (through the little hole in the camera), and that this gestur...more

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One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everythi...more

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[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mi...more