Glassed-in and dry
Does "the glassed-in and relatively “dry” character of the institution of photography" mean "the property of photography that makes things to seem solid and inanimate"?
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One could describe numerous photographs such as Milk, 1984, in which Wall presents a scene in which a fluid gesture, here the splash of milk bursting from the punctured milk cartoon being held by a seated man, is solidified by ‘the glassed-in and relatively “dry” character of the institution of photography’, the animate rendered inanimate, but not quite.
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catttt Does "the glassed-in and relatively “dry” character of the institution of photography" mean "the property of photography that makes things to seem solid and inanimate"? That sounds about right. I take "glassed-in" to mean that it's like the subject is in a display case.
- catttt Does "the glassed-in and relatively “dry” character of the institution of photography" mean "the property of photography that makes things to seem solid and inanimate"?
- That sounds about right.
- I take "glassed-in" to mean that it's like the subject is in a display case.
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cattttDoes "the glassed-in and relatively “dry” character of the institution of photography" mean "the property of photography that makes things to seem solid and inanimate"?
That sounds about right. I take "glassed-in" to mean that it's like the subject is in a display case.
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