The Searing of the University

Q4 Arts and Humanities Kronos Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI:10.17159/2309-9585/2017/V43A6
John Mowitt
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No matter how artful the photographer, no matter how carefully posed his subject, the beholder [of the photograph] feels an irresistible urge to search such a picture for the tiny spark of contingency, of the here and now, with which reality has (so to speak) seared the subject, to find the inconspicuous spot where in the immediacy of that long-forgotten moment the future nests so eloquently that we, looking back, may rediscover it.2
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无论摄影师多么巧妙,无论拍摄对象摆出多么精心的姿势,(照片的)观看者都有一种不可抗拒的冲动,要在这样的照片中寻找偶然性的微小火花,此时此地,现实(可以这么说)烧焦了拍摄对象,要找到一个不显眼的地方,在那个被遗忘已久的瞬间的直接性中,未来如此雄辩地筑巢,以至于我们回头看时,可能会重新发现它
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