Tuesday 12 January 2010

Illuminations, pp. 187-188

"What was inevitably felt to be inhuman, one might even say deadly, in daguerrotypy was the (prolongued) looking into the camera, since the camera records our likeness without returning our gaze. but looking at someone carries the implicit expectacion that our look will be returned by the object of our gaze" ("On some motifs in Baudelaire")

Te odio Benjamin por ser tan seco.

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