Bazin’s essay so called “The Ontology of the Photographic
Image” is a beautiful documentation of ontological praxis between ontological
thinking and ontological materialism. Inside our social fabric, we are
dissolved with various rituals, and photographing image is also one of a kind
that humans are celebrating since eighteenth century. Bazin is approaching with the ritual of making
photographic image as a sarcophagus or an element to pour immortality in humans
life.
When human dies,
we give them a name called ghosts. Since, it is hard to preserve ghost, camera is
our new agent which helps us to breed those ghosts. An art of ghost preserving
that allow us to flesh out the visual data of the ghosts. What sort of body
structure he or she has? Is it a bulimic, anorexic, voluptuous, Obese, or slim
fit? What sort of fabric they were wearing? Everything is preserved in a
compact form and this is now called Photography. These sort of thinking’s Bazin wants to
suggest us through his article.
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