Ranciere discusses the particular ability of photography to create distance between three distinct parties: the subject, the viewer, and the photographer.
"The photograph's pensiveness might then be defined as this tangle between several forms of indeterminacy."
-(Ranciere, "The Emancipated Spectator," 114)
One source of this tangle is the tendency of the viewer to read into the motivations/thoughts/physical condition of the photographic subject, historical context only adds to the tangle.
Ranciere discusses the particular ability of photography to create distance between three distinct parties: the subject, the viewer, and the photographer.
ReplyDelete"The photograph's pensiveness might then be defined as this tangle between several forms of indeterminacy."
-(Ranciere, "The Emancipated Spectator," 114)
One source of this tangle is the tendency of the viewer to read into the motivations/thoughts/physical condition of the photographic subject, historical context only adds to the tangle.