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Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Jean Baudrillard
Photography, Mirrors, Exorcism
Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

Jean Baudrillard
Photography, Real, Fables

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.

Jean Baudrillard
Photography, Reality, Age
"Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Jean Baudrillard
Photography, Reality, Suffering
"Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

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