Sunday, August 07, 2011

 Sedimenting
reflecting
memory
 is photography an attempt
to outlive memory ?

5 comments:

  1. nos ombres nous rappellent qu'on ne se baigne pas deux fois dans le même fleuve et que sur nos berges tout n'est peut être que vanité.

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  2. love these images!

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  3. Carter3:13 AM

    "Outlive," I guess you mean, rather than "endure." Great question, probably rhetorical (not wishing an answer). I'd tend to suggest, neither one, because of its consciousness of intervening in appreciation/revision/etc. But it would be generous and pleasant of you to remark on the question. :)

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  4. outlive, Laurent, is by far a better word. but for how long is the real issue...especially with digital...does a photograph outlive a memory when the very memory of it is gone?

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  5. time

    is essential to memory.

    william maxwell said, "if only one could choose

    what to remember and how to remember..."

    when we choose what to remember with a photo

    is it because that is the memory

    we can only bear to live with?

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