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On trauma and image from RB, "The Photographic Message":<\/p>\n

These few remarks sketch a kind of differential table of photographic
\n connotations, showing, if nothing else, that connotation extends a long way. 
\n Is this to say that a pure denotation, a this-side of language<\/i>, is
\n impossible? If such a denotation exists, it is perhaps not at the level of
\n what ordinary language calls the insignificant, the neutral, the objective,
\n but, on the contrary, at the level of absolutely traumatic images.  The
\n trauma can be seized in a process of photographic signification but then
\n precisely they are indicated via a rhetorical code which distances, sublimates
\n and pacifies them.  Truly traumatic photographs are rare, for in
\n photography the trauma is wholly dependent on the certainty that the scene
\n ‘really’ happened: the photographer had to be there<\/i> (the mythical
\n definition of denotation).  Assuming this (which, in fact, is already a
\n connotation), the traumatic photograph (fires, shipwrecks, catastrophes,
\n violent deaths, all captured ‘from life as lived’) is the photograph about
\n which there is nothing to say; the shock-photo is by structure insignificant:
\n no value, no knowledge, at the limit no verbal categorization can have a hold
\n on the process instituting the signification.  One could imagine a kind
\n of law: the more direct the trauma, the more difficult its connotation; or
\n again, the ‘mythological’ effect of a photograph is inversely proportional to
\n its traumatic effect. (30)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

"The more difficult its connotation…," close<\/i> to what Jeff posted
\nMonday at
\nthis Public Address on
\n
\nspectacle, disaster and "signature images."<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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