The Peripheral Space of Photography

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This profound, short essay by poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around a relationship between image and words. Through a critique of photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of 1993, he shows repeatedly how the -focal points in photographs are often their mistakes (blurs, over-or-under exposures, etc.) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries.