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The Photographic Other: Paradox In The Cathexis Of Longing, Alex Cilla Bradley
The Photographic Other: Paradox In The Cathexis Of Longing, Alex Cilla Bradley
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A photographic and written examination of paradox in relation to the photograph
This research aims to illuminate the relationship between paradox and photography, elaborated via Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject. Paradox is considered in relation to photography in terms of repeated and unresolved debates about the status of the photograph as either an ‘index of reality’ (Bate, 2004, p. 1) or as a sign. The significance of this research lies in its re-motivation of abjection in terms of paradox, not in order to resolve such debates but, rather, to illuminate the importance of such unresolved contradictions in terms of …