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Roland Barthes

“When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.”

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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