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The Dark Chamber

The age of the iPhone has made it easy to forget the meaning of the word 'Camera' which means chamber, or vault.

"..a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), and interpretation of the real, it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask." - Susan Sontag

Animal Locomotion - An Electrophotographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Plate 574. "Hansel" walking, free [Vol. 9 Horses], 1885-1886, by Eadweard Muybridge

AGNSW collection Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion - An Electrophotographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Plate 574. "Hansel" walking, free [Vol. 9 Horses] 1885-1886

"..a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), and interpretation of the real, it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask." - Susan Sontag