![]() the photograph becomes “surprising” when we do not know why it has been taken (34).if Photography seems to me closer to the Theater, it is by way of a singular intermediary … by way of Death … a figuration of the motionless and made-up face beneath which we see the dead (31).The studium … mobilizes a half-desire, a demi-volition it is some sort of vague, slippery, irresponsible interest one takes in the people, the entertainments, the books, the clothes one finds “all right” (27).A photograph’s punctum is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me) (27).What I feel from these photographs derives from average affect … it is studium … application to a thing, taste for someone, a kind of general, enthusiastic commitment … but without special acuity (26). ![]()
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