INTERMITTENZA TEMPORALE
Digital Photography, Portrait, Mixed technique, 35x45cm
TEMPORAL INTERMITTENCE
This picture is composed with three elements:
a portrait of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a portrait of the Czechoslovak writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), both reacting with the final strophe of a poem by the German poet Stefan George (1868-1933).
This choice is not a fortuitous one because Benjamin himself made some reflections either on Kafka’s thinking or on George’s one, citing the same strophe in his essay A short history of photography in 1931.
This picture intends to give the user a chance to become immediately aware of the concept of explosion of time in Benjamin. Photography is a medium with which reality “flashes” us, beyond the artistic view of the photographer: “ the being in a certain way of that far instant reveals still today the future, and with so much eloquence that we, looking back, are still able to discover it.”
Photography is not only memory, but takes us beyond memory. It restores reality saving it from oblivion, recovering the authentic temporal thickness in the instant that makes time exploding; the instant in which both, past and future, become present.
Photography represents a medium with which is possible to understand something that otherwise could escape.
The temporal continuity that never ends, typical of the archives thinking, is here in question.
Looking at the picture’s portraits along with the reading of the poem can evoke in the user the consciousness of the full instant that follows the arrest of temporal running, a flashing intermittence that makes present something that otherwise would be lost.
This picture is composed with three elements:
a portrait of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a portrait of the Czechoslovak writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), both reacting with the final strophe of a poem by the German poet Stefan George (1868-1933).
This choice is not a fortuitous one because Benjamin himself made some reflections either on Kafka’s thinking or on George’s one, citing the same strophe in his essay A short history of photography in 1931.
This picture intends to give the user a chance to become immediately aware of the concept of explosion of time in Benjamin. Photography is a medium with which reality “flashes” us, beyond the artistic view of the photographer: “ the being in a certain way of that far instant reveals still today the future, and with so much eloquence that we, looking back, are still able to discover it.”
Photography is not only memory, but takes us beyond memory. It restores reality saving it from oblivion, recovering the authentic temporal thickness in the instant that makes time exploding; the instant in which both, past and future, become present.
Photography represents a medium with which is possible to understand something that otherwise could escape.
The temporal continuity that never ends, typical of the archives thinking, is here in question.
Looking at the picture’s portraits along with the reading of the poem can evoke in the user the consciousness of the full instant that follows the arrest of temporal running, a flashing intermittence that makes present something that otherwise would be lost.
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