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Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
A picture of the eclipse places the photographer paradoxically in the time before photography, not because of what it depicts but because it is a souvenir of that momentary intimation of the era of myth, when reality and experience were supposedly untroubled by mediation and everyone lived in the shared, immediate presence of being. It doesn’t matter that that feeling doesn’t look like anything, that it is unphotographable in its essence. The eclipse photo is a picture of being afraid of the dark.
Images of Unphotographability
Rob Horning
We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.
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