Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A New Approach to Photography
Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A New Approach to Photography
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碎片、未来、缺席和过去：摄影的新方法
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10.25602/gold.00017037
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2017
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Silke Helmerdig
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作者：
Silke Helmerdig
我是谁-或者我应该问我是什么？
作为一名具有德国和犹太血统的执业摄影师，我的艺术兴趣长期以来一直是创伤事件后的摄影表现。
按照克拉考尔的定义，什么可以被称为“摄影”，即什么往往符合现实作为一个基本的美学原则，我的研究重点是摄影在历史回忆的创伤事件的不可想象的尺寸，如大屠杀的作用。
德国对大屠杀的纪念似乎集中在600万这个数字上。相比之下，我感兴趣的是缺席在未来的可能性方面为我们提供了什么，而不是过去造成的只会导致结束的空虚。空虚是历史的结果，而缺席是记忆的必要条件。关于大屠杀，只有在无形中才能找到德国-犹太人共存的可能性，这种共存被第三赖希期间的行为所打断。
本雅明认为，不为现在所承认的过去有可能无可挽回地消失。因此，照片不能仅仅通过纯粹的描绘来拯救被遗忘的时刻，而只能通过在每一个当下时刻保持真实。
与其指望摄影的纪实性，即用过去时态来表达“曾经是什么”，我建议用一种不同的方法来摄影，一种未来虚拟（摄影）时态的延伸，即“如果”，让人们思考可能的未来，而不是回到过去。
Who am I — or should I rather ask what am I?
As a practising photographer with both German and Jewish origins, my artistic interest has long been in photographic representation in the aftermath of a traumatic event.
Following Kracauer's definition of what may be called "photographic", namely what tends to conform to the realistic as a basic aesthetic principle, my research focuses on the role of photography in the historical recollection of a traumatic event of unimaginable dimensions such as the Holocaust.
Remembrance of the Holocaust in Germany has seemed to focus on the figure of six million. By contrast, I am interested in what absence offers us in terms of future possibilities rather than a void created by the past that leads only to closure. The void comes as a historical consequence, while absence is essential to memory. With regard to the Holocaust, absence can only be found in the invisible that holds a possibility of a German-Jewish coexistence, which was interrupted by the acts committed during the Third Reich.
According to Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping it actual at every present moment.
Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", I suggest a different approach to photography, an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.