That the photograph is ‘modern’, mingled with our noisiest everyday life, does not keep it from an enigmatic point of inactuality, a strange stasis, the stasis of an arrest.
Roland Barthes. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
Against the simulation of a linear history ‘in progress’, we have to accord a privileged status to these backfires, these malign deviations, these lightweight catastrophes which cripple an empire much more effectively than any great upheavals. We have to accord a privileged status to all that has to do with non-linearity, reversibility, all that is of the order not of an unfolding or an evolution, but of a winding back, a reversion in time, anastrophe versus catastrophe.
Jean Baudrillard
The bubbles emerging from under hood at lower right as representing some kind of last gasp of the car, or perhaps even the civilization that brought such a beautiful catastrophe into existence.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
Consider the way the camera is used now. Its possibilities are no longer those of the subject who ‘reflects’ the world according to his personal vision; rather, they are the possibilities of the lens, as exploited by the object. The camera is thus a machine that vitiates all will, erases all intentionality and leaves nothing but the pure reflex needed to take pictures. Looking itself disappears without a trace, replaced by a lens now in collusion with the object – and hence with an inversion of vision.
Jean Baudrillard
The long serpentine crease pressed into the blanket on the chair which denotes absence. That point where the person no longer present, remains present to us.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
...To duplicate the world is to respond to a world which signifies nothing with a theory which, for its part, looks like nothing on earth. ...It recognizes that there is nothing to be said of the world, that there is nothing that this world can be exchanged for, while at the same time showing that this world cannot be as it is without this exchange with theory.
Jean Baudrillard
The little strip of green under the tree in which life is asserted among the dead of winter.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
Perhaps the desire to take photographs arises from the observation that on the broadest view, from the standpoint of reason, the world is a great disappointment. In its details, however, and caught by surprise, the world always has a stunning clarity.
Jean Baudrillard
The moment when you realize that you know the location appearing upside down in the glass.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
…at the heart of the photographic image there’s a figure of nothingness, of absence, of unreality. Its this nothingness at the heart of the image that gives it its pure magic…
Jean Baudrillard
The soft ripples on the water and the way the light draws the colour of the pool to them and present it with false contours make this an exemplary photograph of the real hiding just behind appearances.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
…night does not fall, objects secrete it at the end of day when, in their tiredness, they exile themselves into their silence
The “x” formed by the plumes of expended jet fuel over the crepuscular landscape. This is supplanted by a more powerful punctum, the two lights together like the eyes of some mysterious night creature at lower left.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
The silence of photography. ...Whatever the violence, speed or noise which surrounds it, it gives the object back its immobility and its silence. ...Where does the magic of photography come from? The answer is that it is the object which does all the work.
Jean Baudrillard
The shadow of the man following him faithfully along the wall. This is also supplanted very quickly by the second punctum, the truck roaring silently into the frame.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
…the intense life of clouds is one of the natural treasures of the earth.
Jean Baudrillard
The thin veil of rain blocking out the mountains forming the invisible horizon line.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
...no matter which photographic technique is used, there is always one thing, and one thing only, that remains: the light.
Photo-graphy: The writing of light... this light is the very imagination of the image.
Jean Baudrillard
The meeting of night and day forming the horizon line.
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
Unlike the discourse of the real which gambles on the fact of there being something rather than nothing, and aspires to be founded on the guarantee of an objective and decipherable world, radical thought, for its part, wagers on the illusion of the world. It aspires to the status of illusion, restoring the non-veracity of facts, the non-signification of the world, proposing the opposite hypothesis that there is nothing rather than something, and going in pursuit of that nothing which runs beneath the apparent continuity of meaning.
Jean Baudrillard
The texture of the shadow
Roland Barthes
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| Автор Jean Baudrillard |
...all the promises of modernity are of the same order: they have been accomplished technically, and, like ghosts or extras, we haunt a world which can do barely anything else now but keep its technical machinery churning.
Jean Baudrillard
The ghost like figure at the right.
Roland Barthes
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