ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the photograph can bring forth to the viewer ‘phantoms of imagination and of personal loss’. A photograph reveals a fragment of things past, it points to and reminds us of the absence of the object held within the photograph. The chapter also discusses Various Properties photography was a device to document performances. There have been many debates around the clean precision of the digital in contrast to the imperfections of analogue photography. The aesthetic merits of both technologies can be championed as superior. Whether we should strive for perfection and sharpness or celebrate the faults and flaws of photography is something that has been discussed since the beginning of the invention of the fixed photographic image. The chapter offers a space to think about how the history of photography can help us understand something of ourselves, and reveal the precariousness of our place in this world.
