ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines photography as the multi-dimensional, expressive, singular, and non-identical practice that frustrates static, linear, oppositional totalities and reflected subjectivities. The photographic image is worth salvaging not because of the sentimental and ruinous attachment to regimes of spectatorship, nor out of surrender to the overwhelming power of the gaze and the admission of the sovereignty of the eye. The frame, the edge of the photograph is the self-referential aspect of the image. The frame seems to indicate in a simple and unambiguous manner that an image is being made. Numerous attempts to escape transcendentalist thought ended up bringing the transcendental back in.
