Against Barthes BASELITZ GEORG Il veut poursuivre sa quête

Il veut poursuivre sa quête de la juste écriture

bien loin des soucis du vaste monde et des sourdes menaces de la guerre froide

d'une allure si rapide que personne ne pourrait le suivre

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Against Barthes BASELITZ GEORG Il veut poursuivre sa quêteThe gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photographys function as a visual document: an injunction to look at this. In this textual and visual essay, artist Joan Fontcuberta takes the index finger as his point of departure for an insightful and irreverent consideration of photographys relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthess suggestion that every photograph tells us this has been (a a t), reckoning with