“An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.” StillsRealDreamTodayFacesValuesWallShadowSecureErasPostsInnocenceDistinctionTragicImaginaryPlatoCavesFragilityFlickerPlato SElusivenessPlato's Cave Author:William J. Mitchell
“The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.” RealityValuesLanguageLosesStruggleIdentityPhotographyConscienceRelationContemporaryEthicalAestheticPrincipalSiteRepresentation Author:William J. Mitchell
