photograph, n.Definitions

The Photograph is a grammar and an ethics of seeing.

A Photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The Photograph is a motionless image... this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move... it means that they do not emerge and they do not leave: They are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

The Photograph is a furnisher of evidence. Something seems proven when we're shown a photograph of something we have heard about or doubt.

The Photograph is a mad image, a temporal hallucination that caricatures not figure, but time itself. It is a hallucination on the one hand in that 'it is not there,' on the other 'but it has indeed been'.

A Photograph is a little better than the work of an apache, but not quite so good as that of a cheyenne.

A Photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.

A Photograph is a partial object, a collection of little features which delight and which are able to flatter certain fetishes in us.