To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography LOVE AS A MINI DEATH Contemporary with the withdrawal of rites, Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death.
For Death must be somewhere in a society if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere perhaps in this image which produces Death while trying to preserve life.
