Handwriting, an element of touch, a photograph of handwriting is as good as a portrait. It is as a metonymy for that portrait. The signature, when you first make a signature is when you become a person.
Handwriting, like photography are descriptive marks of a person, by a person, of a thing. Photography has created an apparatus to mark the desire of sexuality and death.
Photography leaves a trace of the image, writing leaves a trace of the author. The surface has been disrupted.
Roland Barthes - Studium and Punctum
Studium - all the messages clearly visible in a picture. transforms reality without making the world shudder.
Punctum - the punctum cant be something chose by the photographer, it always has to be an accident. Holding the world in front of us in place and blinds us from it. The punctum isn't in the photograph, it is in the individual viewers engagement with the photograph.
Photography is about pulling back the curtain to see things for what they really are.
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