Gestus

Ilt rvork is bascd or Lhe representation of the body. In rne D--dnrm of photosraplLy,

rhis rep,-s--ntatnx, deperds upon the .onsrucdon of expressive gesLes rhi.h caD "Ussence rmt appear," says Hegel, ald nr th-- rpreserted bod), fLction as emblems. ir apt--am as a gesture inich !!ows itlell to b. alpedatrce,. "Gesture" means a pose or actiol wlrich projects its meadng as a.otrventioxal tcd sign. Tbn definition is nsual\ iden[ficd liih applied to the firl\. r--alized. drmatic gestures

rbe art of ear]ier penods, tartici

arly tle Baroque, the great age of

tau,red drma. N{odern tui has ne.esstuily abandoned these theatrics, since the bod ies lrhich pcrformcd such gestures did not iave to inhabit thc mechalized ciries

\r'li.h themselves emerged lion bourd to tuachnrcs, or rc!lac.{ of thern. ftom ou vje{'}ronr!

tlte cnliure of dre ]lam.t!e. those bodies {ere not bJ rh.inr h r]rc dnision ol labor, and were not alranl suffcr

drerefoie, they exlress happincss cvcn whcn cr

I he .--r--nonnn,sress, dre energy, ard the sersuousnes of the gestur--sof ilaroqu-- art re replaced in modcmitl by mcchanistic molcmentq refld a.tions, iNolurLary.

ronrpulsirc responses.Reduced ro the level of enissions of bioDcchani.al or bioele. ric energx thcsc actioxs ar. lot rerl\ "gesturcs" irthesense developed byolderaes :r,1i. TheJ are physi.allj smallex ihan those of .ld& ar! ore condensed,medrer rore collapsed, more rigid, rnre violent. Their smalLres, hoFever, corresfonds to

: increas,-d rneans of magnituiation in making aDd displaying images.l photo$aph ..errthiig xr perpetual close up atr{r proje.t it foNafd ir again, old dd q'ith a continlous bust of lhe con.

i<ht, niagrifyjng

abolc i photograpliic ellargenert. expre$ivc body no!eDenis

::.r..1 lnrle a.rions, rhe nrvohmraily :.]\cs so well ro p|orographl :-:

which lend ilietu

are lvhal rcmain in cvcryrlay life of dre older idea of

re as the bodilyj pictorial fofrr of histodcal consciousress. Po$iblt this double of whar has beer nade srnall and meage\ of what has appdently losl

:::.eniftrtior

i iigriln,ax.e, ,,an lili th vil a lirle on tt'-- objecrive miscry of socicly md rtre .i .!:..phi. operation of irs law ol valu.. llcsturc creates tn in the diale.tic of ns

-::rg for atrotLerin

picrrrres, ns being for a. gc. I idagirr. that ere ds oxe whictr and ro know the

.:-rrs and which desires simulrmcously to expeietr.e I'apdn--$

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