Image degradation

Roland Barthes observed that it is true that a photograph is a witness but that it is a witness of something that is no more. Even if the subject of the picture still exists, the photograph records a moment in the subject's existence and that particular moment has passed. Each perception and reading of a photograph is implicitly a contract with something that has ceased to exist. We make the not-very-profound observation: as time continues to pass, entropy not only affects the subject but it also affects the fabric of the image itself.

Please see the exhibition notes for further ruminations.