The material of a photograph

What’s the material of a photograph? Is light a matter? or it’s a form of energy? What about darkness? The negative of light as the matter of a photograph?

Is it too much to imagine a very subtle kind of photograph with almost no light? or is it a ‘blasphemy’ just to think of a photograph in terms of its shadows and dark areas per se?

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Primitive Figures

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A Kid at The Museum

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Indonesia in Frames

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the gesture of photography

Tonight I’m struck by a text by my favourite author: Vilem Flusser. He wrote a fascinating chapter regarding the gesture of photography. The last sentence of the chapter is spot on: … photography as a gesture of looking, of “theoria.” So... Continue →