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inside the image
between light and shadow
In photography there is the negative and the positive.
It is a relationship between light and darkness.
It is a right balance between what there is to see and what must not be seen.
The subtle fascination of the image lies in its ability to reveal the invisible.
An invisible that is not the never seen, but the aspect that is invisible to us in things and objects, and that hides in the meanders of our perception.
To photograph becomes the awareness of being on the boundary line between the known and the unknown, which transforms looking into glimpsing.
Luigi Ghirri
I speak of a world where everything is seen and not seen at the same time.
Italo Calvino (Dell'opaco, 1971)
The supreme wisdom of the photographic image consists in saying:
“This is the surface. Now think, or better yet, intuit what lies beyond it, what reality must be if this is its appearance.”
Photography, as it peels away the dry shells of habitual vision, creates another way of seeing: intense and at the same time lucid, engaged and at the same time detached; fascinated by the insignificant detail, devoted to oddity.
Photographs, which as such cannot explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, to speculation and to imagination.
Susan Sontag (On Photography, 1973)
As a fragmentary sign, photography plays on exclusion, on the renunciation of the total representation of the real.
And by virtue of this renunciation, the visible, shaped by the framing, is a symbol, that is, a medium between the visible and the invisible to which it refers.
Ennery Taramelli (Infinite Worlds of Luigi Ghirri, 2005)
I realized how much, in a photograph, I love what is not seen.
A real physical darkness.
It is truly exciting for me to see darkness again.
Diane Arbus
The disorientation that fog, rain, snow, night create is an invitation to look in an ever-renewed way.
With fog, for example, not seeing clearly creates uncertainty and destroys any presumption of the gaze.
Anna D'Elia (Photography as Therapy. Through the Images of Luigi Ghirri, 1999)
By removing the disturbing elements of the daytime world,
it is the night that allows us to carve out magical and enchanted visions, becoming, as Breton teaches,
the most beautiful of nights, the "night of lightning".
Ennery Taramelli (Memory like a childhood. The narrative thought of Luigi Ghirri, 2017)
I think of certain photographs by Ferdinando Scianna
and it occurs to me that the high sun,
is nothing but an excuse to investigate the shadows it produces,
to ask them questions.
Francesco Faraci (Nomadic Soul. From Pasolini to Poor Photography, 2022)
By etymology, the "author" is the one who "increases," who adds.
And it would be nice to ask oneself what a photographer "adds," after cropping with the frame the piece of the world that interests him and after having taken away its depth, its color, its time.
Ferdinando Scianna (Cartier-Bresson. Libro dopo libro, 2021)
Photography, which can capture ashadow, is itself like a shadow, like the shadow cast by theinstant it captures.
This capture is a suspension, a drifting in the course of time-image, a hyper-image.
The immobility of the image is complete, absolute, but what it captures and tells is mobility itself, it is the fleeting character of every event.
Jean-Christophe Bailly (The Instant and Its Shadow, 2008)
Photography and philosophy are both ways to address the problem of doubt in a systematic way.
Flusser Vilém
Every photo is an attempt to anchor something to being, to stop it on the path of that oscillation that leads it to nothingness, even in the awareness of the unstoppable nature of that journey.
Diego Mormorio (Another Distance. The West and the Refuge of Photography, 1997)
Now, there exists a black realm, which the human eye avoids, because such a landscape does not attract it at all.
Thisshadow, which it claims to neglect in order to describe the light, is theerror, with its unknown characteristics.
Only the error, for those who would consider it in itself, could bear witness to the fleeting reality.
Louis Aragon (Le Paysan de Paris, 1926 )
Light and shadow.
Light produces shadow.
Writing with light? *
The light burns the sensitive layer, it is DARKNESS.
By printing the impression on paper, we reverse its effect. Agreeing contradiction. All we do is make the image DARK.
SHADOWS do not tell us the meaning, they render the image of a Thing, which does not remain a Thing, which evokes another Thing.
It is the disintegration caused by light, which speaks with the SHADOWS, which modifies the Thing into a de-signifying image.
* etymology of the term "photography", from the Greek φῶς, phṑs (light) and γραφή, graphḕ (writing)
Raoul Hausmann (Je ne suis pas photographe, 1921)
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