For me, photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposedly "real" world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality, that it actually could do without meaning and reality (but we can hardly face this hypothesis, no more than that there might be nothing rather than something). A few images may be this ideal place, or non-place, where the concepts disintegrate and we are free of the servitude of knowledge and information - but images which at the same time retrace and celebrate this final state of things, in the same way that myths celebrate and retrace our origins and the original murder of reality.

Jean Baudrillard (complete text)

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