Photography and death
Abstract
Since the appearance of the photography image, it was closely connected with the topic of death. Dealing with material settings, reflecting its visible and invisible forms, snapshot refers to objectivity of the world, its rationalistic borders and phenomena of life itself. Photography, as a death, gives importance to the objects, but breaks the notion of experience, it raises the question of identity, but removes the problem of physically pain. Capturing the changing world, static photography shows the impossibility of transition and, in the same time, provides permeability of the photographic world. In this sense, the position of the photography is very archaic. It interrupts the linear continua of time, breaks the constant state of space, resists the hierarchy of culture, and turns the world into the chaos. Erasing absolute distinctions, photography designates the positions of inhuman, displaying the possibility to recognize the death as inevitable human quality.
Keywords:
photography, death, time, life, existence, experience, mystery, secrecy, border, transition, pain, Sontag, Flusser, Levinas, Derrida, Benjamin, Foucault
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2013-03-18
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Vasilyeva, E. V. . (2013). Photography and death. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts, 3(1), 82–92. Retrieved from https://artsjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/1660
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