...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a.... : Quote by Roland Barthes

“ ...The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they said, his images 'spoke too much'; they made us reflect, suggested a meaning — a different meaning from the literal one. Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is (i)pensive(i), when it thinks. ”

Roland Barthes
  • From : Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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