The first thing I found was this. What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
In the Photograph, the event is never transcended for the sake of something else: the Photograph always leads the corpus I need back to the body I see; it is the absolute Particular, the sovereign Contingency, matte and somehow stupid, the This (this photograph, and not Photography), in short, what Lacan calls the Tuché, the Occasion, the Encounter, the Real, in its indefatigable expression. In order to designate reality, Buddhism says sunya, the void; but better still: tathata, fact of being this, of being thus, of being so; tat means that in Sanskrit and suggests the gesture of the child pointing his finger at something and saying: that, there it is, lo! but says nothing else; a photograph cannot be transformed (spoken) philosophically, it is wholly ballasted by the contingency of which it is the weightless, transparent envelope.
“Camera Lucida” by Roland Barthes
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About Raffaello De Vito
Raffaello De Vito lives and work in Italy between Reggio Emilia and Modena. He becomes interested in photography at the age of 12 and at 14 he begins his training in an advertising photography studio, an experience that will lead him to get in touch with various professionals and with important companies on the international market.
At the and of the 80s he started collaborating as a production assistant with Luigi Ghirri, collaboration interrupted in 1991 with the premature death of the great photographer and which gave a birth to a visual research that he still explores today.
A steady work of simplification, subtraction and synthesis aimed at a universal language that is immediately comprehensible. Has to his credit several exhibition in Switzerland, France, Spain, England and Italy as well as numerous publications on websites all over the world.
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