March 25, 2005

Atget, photos, ontology

AtgetVH3.jpg
Atget, Saint-Cloud, 1924

Andrew Benjamin is quoted as saying:

"Representation involves presence. It gives presence to what had hitherto not been presented."

Representation, in short, is pervasively ontological.

This puzzles me. How is the above image a performance of a profoundly resonant ontologies?

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 25, 2005 11:51 PM | TrackBack
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