The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me. The Photography of silver halogens sensitive to light has been lost to archival inks. Dry labs are replacing wet rooms, light rooms replacing dark rooms. This shift most clearly marks the End of Photography as we have come to know it. The new photographic surface is composed of pigments resting on the surface of photographic papers. It is a surface more closely related to that of Painting than the Photographic. The carnal medium, Photography of light and matter… this Photography is being displaced. We must think anew the photographic horizon. In the Bible, we can find the famous statement that there is nothing new under the sun. That is, of course, true. But there is no sun inside the museum. |
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