Talking about Death - Photographing Death I

By interrupting the time river, she carries out a kind of killing; the relationship of the photographic instant with the moment of death was often emphasized by the theory of the photography. Thus Roland Barthes already wrote, with the photography “we entered the level of usual death”; and Susan Sontag noticed: “Photographing is called the number of deaths takes an inventory”, because a finger pressure is sufficient to lend “over to the instant as it were a postume irony”.

Straight this elementary linkage between photography and death lets all photographs of humans appear as “something oppressing”; because death is as incomprehensible as the moment, to which the photo tries to give a durable shape.

Photographic traditions death “in the photography and civilized”, states Bernd shrubs in its “perception history of the photography” was ritualised; each photographic image is a “small death”. This “small death”, which shrubs in technical regard associate with the invention of the 35mm camera, stepped certainly from the outset into the service of death.