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Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A New Approach to Photography

Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A New Approach to Photography

Helmerdig, Silke

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Series: Image

Photography History & CriticismPhotography Instruction

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ISBN10: 3837636240
ISBN13: 9783837636246
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: Feb 7 2017
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of what has been, Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of what could be, if, allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.

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