I’ve learned the camera well—the danger
of it, the half-truths it can tell, but also
the way it fastens us to our pasts, makes grand
the unadorned moment.
—Letters from Storyville, December 1911
This quote is from the voice of a character created in Natasha Trethewey's book of poems Bellocq’s Ophelia.
Read it a few times, then free-write your impressions of the speaker,
or continue her thoughts further. What experiences does she have with
the camera? How does she interpret the stories it captures? Is she the
model or the photographer?
No comments:
Post a Comment