a photograph is about a particular event at a particular time
a contact sheet is about chronology.
one (particular) photographic event leading into another.
the rest is history. the stuff around. the stuff beyond.
the photograph is comparable to a tale told at the dinner table.
a record of the day's events.
the record of days (of) events becomes history - in()between the frames.
much too weighty for jovial dinner-time conversation.
histories scream but are seldom heard.
books & scholars sifting through dust
the mire of what once was, chiseled out of water.
the lens silences that which can not be re presented.
silence are facts dying.
yet we must intervene
photographers are practitioners of history - albeit anecdotally
how does a brief sketch become a haunting vision ?
when a contact sheet reveals more than its author intended
when the machine sees more than the eye.
how am i to decide what's true -
i'm even unsure
whether the soldier
in Capa's image actually fell.
( the space between a document & an image
the place in which our conversation must start. )
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