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Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

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Remembered pictures are like water: the harder you try to hold on to them, the more surely they run away.

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“One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: ‘I am looking at eyes that looked at the Emperor.’ Sometimes I would mention this amazement, but since no one seemed to share it, nor even to understand it (life consists of these little touches of solitude), I forgot about it.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

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“It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

tags: photography, referents

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