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The Body and its Double

Summary/Abstract: When photography offers the human body, what is it that it does and why is this gesture so irresistible? Is the image an image of something? Image of what is the image of the body? The tension in this question - a tension stretching between the desire to refer to the thing and its impossibility - is what captivates the gaze. The image never approaches us, nor does it await us. We are the ones who, if they wish so, can approach it but there is no room for even such a deceptive closeness because once it begins to approach, the gaze loses the vital distance of the relation with the object it desires. The image is more than a presence. And the gaze is not the first but the last, the least important connection to it.

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