Ghost Photo
[coming soon]
Differently Intimate
Every killed negative stands out in the FSA archive. If nothing else, that was Styker’s point – to mark certain negatives, making them distinguishable from the rest so they would not, could not, be printed. But, this image would stand out even without the mark. Like so many of the killed negatives, we know nothing about this...
On Importance
In her widely influential collection of essays, On Photography, Susan Sontag writes: To photograph is to confer importance. There is probably no subject that cannot be beautified; moreover, there is no way to suppress the tendency inherent in all photographs to accord value to their subjects (28). Whatever the FSA’s political motives, it is hard...
