light and shadow

Plague (Pest), from the series Death, Part II (Vom Tode Zweiter Teil), Max Klinger, 1903

“Death and the Maiden”

Stills series, Sarah Charlesworth, 1980

Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see. In short, the referent adheres. And this singular adherence makes it very difficult to focus on Photography.

—Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (1980)

"The photographs give evidence of an action—in each case, someone falling, their fall suspended in the stasis of the photograph—and by looking carefully at this evidence, a glimmer of something else comes through: a set of propositions regarding the image, life, and death."

André de Dienes