Three Examples:
“As for the boy I remember the image before his actual body (that will clear itself up later), while now I am sure that I remember the woman’s body much better than the image.” (119) PHOTO IMAGE VERSUS MEMORY
“…sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys…” (123) PHOTO IMAGE VERSUS RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT OF LIFE
“My strength had been a photograph, that, there, where they were taking their revenge on me, demonstrating clearly what was going to happen. The photo had been taken, the time had run out, gone; we were so far from one another, the abusive act had certainly already taken place, the tears already shed, and the rest conjecture and sorrow. All at once the order was inverted, they were alive, moving, they were deciding and had decided, they were going to their future; and I on this side, prisoner of another time, in a room on the fifth floor, to not know who they were, that woman, that man, and that boy, to be only the lends of my camera, something fixed, rigid, incapable of intervention.” (130) STIFF PHOTO IMAGE BECOMING THE RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT OF LIFE AND THE RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT OF LIFE BECOMING THE STIFF PHOTO IMAGE
Thesis: Although a photo seems to be similar to the act of seeing something in real life (a person, a situation, etc.), the two mechanisms in fact hold somewhat opposing principles, one principle being a stiff, unchanging moment in time, and the other being a rhythmic, moving act of life.
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