Impossible Photographs: Images of War from Rossellini to dOCUMENTA 13

[...]in a sudden release of tension, one of the crew members conveys the impact of the scene unfurling down below. [...]Bergman and Sanders's handsome, starlike faces appear in this exchange also as the recipients of a look that is coming from the earth, from the casts in the process of being b...

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Published in:	Discourse (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2018-01, Vol.40 (1), p.110-131
Main Author:	Torlasco, Domietta
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Aesthetics Allusion Art exhibits Bombings Cameras Derrida, Jacques Documentation dramatic arts Ideology Indexicality Installation art Literary characters Literary devices Logic Motion pictures Motion pictures and war Narrative techniques Photograph albums Photography Rakowitz, Michael Referents Rossellini, Roberto Terrorism The Strangers Viaggio in Italia War war imagery War in art Websites World wars
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Summary:	[...]in a sudden release of tension, one of the crew members conveys the impact of the scene unfurling down below. [...]Bergman and Sanders's handsome, starlike faces appear in this exchange also as the recipients of a look that is coming from the earth, from the casts in the process of being brought to light, and then from their hollow eyes. In commenting on the scene, Raymond Bellour writes that "there emerges the form of a couple clasped in an embrace, as a picture appears in a developer. [...]a photograph is formed from the real itself. Derrida, Copy, Archive, Signature, 5. [...]his encounter with Alexander Gardner's portrait of Lewis Payne, Barthes had defined the punctum as the detail that strikes (pierces, bruises) the viewer above and beyond the average affect of the studium.
ISSN:	1522-5321 1536-1810 1536-1810