After taking two weeks of healing scar photos, I'm comforted by some of James Elkins' thoughts on the representations of the body in art...
In the largest context of photography and disability and time passing, I embrace....
What Photography Is -- a response to and inquiry of Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida. Elkins' argues that photography is not about representation, memory and meaning, instead he suggestion that photography informs us about how we see and what we see when we look at a photograph. "….photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness."
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