In the face of epoch-making technological changes, photography's artistic translation and its social utilization require that both the medium and the concept be re-considered. The whole thinking behind and the practice of photography ask for other possibilities of translation.
We continue to make a link between the image and the real, the actual 'has been there' of the body in front of the camera. But a doubt, a concern, a fear has crept into our understanding of these images. And this fear intrudes on our self-evident notion of representation and recollectionÉ Therein lies the fascination of the photographic medium, that which is so captivating about it, which distinguishes it from all other reproduction media. The suspicion that 'perhaps it was not there'.
Reproduction aims at inner division, every act is conceived and carried out in order to mirror itself in itself 'to the point of its own annihilation'.
(Jean Genet)
For what is meant by freedom but that the rendering of the sense is no longer to be regarded as all-important?
(Walter Benjamin)
; "Wolfgang Schirmacher talking with Diana Ford")
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