The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen. — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
