ARTHURWG@aol.com
Date: 08/24/02-07:43:55 PM Z
I hate to keep quoting S-G, but she also had something to say about the
special (erotic) relationship between photography and other art forms:
"...all discussion must proceed from the recognition that photography
produces a wholly different visual paradigm from that of the older graphic
arts ....Insofar as the photographic picture is the trace of a once-present
person or object, the spectator is inevitably situated in a certain--
however ambiguous -- relation to the real.... The traditional pornographic
representation, whether from the frescoed walls of Pompeii , or the
individual image from the lithographic press, has no such purchase on the
real."
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