photography is the act of murder

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… of reality.

“How can we panic about the loss of the real when we know (tacitly or otherwise) that the real is always already lost in the act of representation? Any representation, even a photographic one, only constructs an image-idea of the real; it does not capture it, even though it might seem to do so.”

Sarah Kember
Kember, Sarah (1998) Virtual Anxiety: Photography, New Technologies and Subjectivity, Manchester University Press, Manchester
pp. 11, 17

 
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