November 12, 2009

Antoine D'Agata: Möbius Strips of Secret Selves

"From the pit of the Empty heart, the empty dark..."
 
"I don't protect myself, I let things come close to me... I can't help it."

 
"I try to distance myself from a certain type of documentary photography that often avails itself of symbols that are too easy to read and assimilate in order to present a complex reality in a balance that is endlessly discussed over and over between photography as an instrument of documentation and photography as being completely subjective. It isn’t the eye that photography poses on the world that interests me but its most intimate rapport with that world." Antoine D'Agata


"D'Agata spares us nothing, and he spares himself nothing... (He) even includes himself in some pictures, as if to show that to leave oneself out would be a delusion."




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