ph- ilosophy/otography • jean baudrillard

read more of baudrillard's thoughts on photography here.

ph- ilosophy/otography • judith butler

"the action of the camera itself is either oddly compliant, recording, as it were, without comment, and raising no alarm, or it works as an incitement to orchestrate the scene, but also to extend the scene in time, to keep the scene going, again and again...it allows the event to continue to happen, and i would suggest that, because of the photo, the event has not stopped happening."

from 'torture and the ethics of photography' by judith butler. read more here.

ph- ilosophy/otography • vilém flusser

more of flusser's thoughts on photography here.

ph- ilosophy/otography • jean-luc nancy

"entering and exiting, that is what makes the image: appearing and disappearing...the image contains the index of its frozenness (its form, its present, its representation) and at the same time the index of movement (force, appearing/disappearing). that is also why it engages both the indefinite proliferation of images as well as each image’s isolation and enframing..."

from 'the ground of the image' by jean-luc nancy. read more here.

ph- ilosophy/otography • jacques ranciére

more of ranciére's thoughts on photography here.

ph- ilosophy/otography • ariella azoulay

"...a photograph is the product of an encounter of several protagonists, mainly photographer and photographed, camera and spectator....at a time in which nearly everyone possesses photographic tools–photography has become a potential event even when there is no camera visible..."

from 'what is a photograph? what is photography?' by ariella azoulay. read more here.

ph- ilosophy/otography • jacques derrida

more of derrida's thoughts on photography here.