domenica 19 febbraio 2012

talking about photography 2




Iconography
Images reside inside of us only to resurface occasionally.
A sampling of faces that belong to our own experience, for the most part “western”  children, young people, and adults.
We have seen more breast-feeding madonnas than actual mothers, and many a blonde-bearded Jesus.
The most beautiful representations of religious iconography rest in silence.
Every time a photographer, often in a war zone, reproduces the usual suffering --the scorn of injustice, of mothers and fathers that weep for a martyred son--- the repetition of events  make mourning similar, over centuries, to statues of stone. 

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