`Epitaph´ in Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography

Geoffrey Batchen (1997)

By Sebastian Alaniz

Epitaph: short text inscribed on a tomb

That's all folks.

Mel Blanc

I am ready to meet my Maker.Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another

matter.

Winston Churchill

Photography

DEATH

DEATH

igitization

DEATH

vidence

DEATH

rt

DEATH

echnology

DEATH istory (cism)

THE END (of photography?)

Image references: (all retrieved during March 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st, 2011)

Dali Atomicus – Philip Halsman http://markpowerblog.com/2008/12/13/halsman-revisited/ Classics in Lego – Mike Stimpson http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/ Afghan Girl – Steve McCurry http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2009/09/classic-photography-in-lego.html Raising the flag on Iwo Jima – Joe Rosenthal Loch Ness Monster – Ian Wetherell Einstein sticking his tongue out – Arthur Sasse Le Baiser de l´Hotel de Ville – Robert Doisneau Abbey Road – Ian McMillan http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/ Tourist guy http://www.touristofdeath.com/gallery/main.php Crashing Squirrell http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6018173/Squirrel-is-surprise-star-of-holiday-photo.html\ View from the Window at Gras - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce http://www.maxpower.ca/category/maxpower-features/ Dead young girl http://visualcultureblog.com/2011/02/post-mortem-photography-is-alive/ Bliss – Charles O´rear http://www.wstaylor.net/winxp.htm Antenna Galaxy http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/17/galactic_collision/ Hermetic Art – Alex Andreev http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/04/16/hermetic-art/ Cell http://w3.revistacarrusel.cl/2010/12/celulas-madre-2/ Lady Brown http://www.paranormalunited.com/ghostandhauntings/brown-lady-of-raynham-hall-norfolk-1936/ Big Foot http://despiertaalfuturo.blogspot.com/2010/06/diez-fenomenos-inexplicados.html First man on the moon http://www.software-dungeon.co.uk/software.php?id=105247 Behind the gare Saint Lazare - Henry Cartier-Bresson http://www.bwvision.com/tag/black-and-white-photography/ The Simpsons – Abbey Road http://media.photobucket.com/image/abbey+road+simpsons+/LadyPanda_2009/simpsons-abbey-road.jpg Che Guevara http://gramscimania.blogspot.com/2010/10/el-che-guevara-un-icono.ht Death of a Loyalist Militiaman – Robert Capa http://infocast.nl/blog/?currentPage=32 Epitaph http://www.macknortshs.eq.edu.au/ANZAC/when_life_is_lost.htm