Listening to Images
(The effect of the Andersonville photographs must have been partly due to the very novelty, at that time, of seeing photographs.) The political understanding that many Americans came to in the 1960s would allow them, looking at the photographs Dorothea Lange took of Nisei on the West Coast being transported to internment camps in 1942, to recognize
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Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
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Steps away from me, a visitor holds a camera to his eye to take a photograph of a photograph of Georgia’s unblinking face. In the moment it feels like a surreal thing to witness, but again I understand why it’s happening. Behind that apparatus, the gentleman feels that he has a surer grip on reality, as it can be difficult to fully experience what
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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
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“Taking a photograph is an act of possession, a way of making something visible while simultaneously freezing it in place, locking it in time.”
– Olivia Laing, The Lonely City (p. 109)