Thursday, April 23, 2009

I found Prof. Doane's lecture on the 4 images that Didi-Huberman presents and analyzes to be extremely intriguing, especially when juxtaposed with the cropped picture of the women running to the gas chambers. It raises the question to me of if images can represent events due to their extreme changeability; the cropped image loses the traces of risk involved in taking them, thus changing the event in a sense that the photos are trying to represent. While both photo images picture a scene in a larger context, by cropping the photo, the meaning seems to change. Which in my mind suggests that images alone cannot solely represent events such as the Holocaust. More context is needed to augment the images.

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