Photography is one technique that can give one the impression of being totally present in a moment. Yet the truth is one is totally present only through a total withdrawing from that exact moment! Photography cannot and will not capture the totality of the Event. It neither can faithfully abstract nor even capture the pure truth of the Event! It can neither be true to its own standards nor to the photographer, who uses and pretends to have mastered it! And yet it is precisely its own blind transgressions, its permanent hostility towards standardization and...more
