A Lens for an Eye
Proust and Photography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370198 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dora Zhang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-125 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2012.118.1.103 |
| OpenAlex | W2152098821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Returning to a famous scene in A la recherche du temps perdu when the narrator sees his grandmother as if his eye were a lens, this paper takes seriously the objectivity attributed to photographic vision in order to trace its consequences for our sense of self. I argue that objective sight is traumatic not because it reveals the future nonexistence of things, but because it reveals the continued existence of things in our absence, signaling thereby the contingency of the perceiving subject
Aesthetics · Art · Contingency · Epistemology · Optics · Photography · Physics · Sight · Through-the-lens metering · Visual arts · Computer Science · French Literature and Critical Theory · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Optometry
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |