are holding two books, two different approaches and two different thoughts on this extraordinary art form that is photography. I mention this because this is what I think: the target images, the power of pictures. I could talk of nothing but this and at this time on this blog.
"What photography reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: it repeats mechanically what can never be repeated existentially. In it, the occurrence is not never transcends to another thing: it always leads the coprpus I need your body I'm seeing, it is the absolute particular, contingency supreme. "
Roland Barthes; Camera Lucida
"A photograph is both a pseudopresenza and an indication of an absence.
Susan Sontag, On Photography
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