Ultimately – or at the limit – in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. ‘The necessary condition for an image is sight,’ Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: ‘We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.’ (Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography)
I love this post… do I write, and make art in order to forget – to clear my mind? Am I driven to share in order to forget?
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My thanks to you, Elisabeth. Roland Barthes had many interesting points of view … and, as he freely admitted, was always on the lookout for whatever would provide him with “an occasion of writing.”
Wouldn’t you know it, Elisabeth? That’s the other twin butting in, as usual. 😉