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NEGOTIATING THE TEMPORAL AND IMMORTAL SPACE
It is an odd phenomenon about photography in that that it
suspends time in the moment the shutter is depressed. It
provides a document of proof of reality in the form of the
print, and yet in respect of these photographs in some ways there
seems the desire to move time backwards to pre-mortem. Often
devices such as supportive armatures and furniture, as well as
friends and relative holding up the corpse would reinforce the
illusion of the person’s live presence. There seemed to be the
desire for the corpse to be the person they once were as opposed
to a mere object of what they had become.
greater irony though is in photographs were the viewer’s eye is
automatically drawn to the sharp focus of a subject. They seem
more compelling and even more alive to the viewer than their
companion sitters. However the captured blurred presence of the
other sitters point to the fact that they were alive and had their
animation caught on camera as opposed to the sitter in sharp
focus who was in fact an inanimate corpse.
The photographic process captures for all time, and in a
compelling manner this conceit, but often the contradiction is
apparent through certain visual signs such as some of the strange
postures of the diseased suggesting unnaturalness. Ironically it is
sometimes difficult to identify the living from the dead as the
living often stiffened like corpses to compensate for the time it
took to expose the film to light during the capture process. The