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[caption id="attachment_2356" align="aligncenter" width="500"] William Henry Fox Talbot, "A Scene in a Library", from The Pencil of Nature, Part 2, Plate 8, January 1845[/caption]&#160;Daniel C. Blight est professeur d’études historiques et critiques de la photographie à l’Université de Brighton (Angleterre) et co-éditeur de Loose Associations, un périodique sur la culture de l'image, publié par The Photographers’ Gallery.Il vient de publier un article intitulé « Be it in light or shadow: Photography and the Essay » où il réfléchit à la relation spécifique entre la photographie et l’essai. Nous vous avons réaliser une sélection de citations pour vous donner envie de le lire :« The essay is a mode of writing that might be produced in order to understand the meaning of photography, but also a form — as it takes various shapes — that writes on the photograph, to the photograph or with the photograph as a means to get closer to it. »« In this sense, photographs are back-to-front sentences, syntactically disordered; forever inversed and transposed. »« what is the politics of essay writing on photography? In my view, when we think about writing on photography, we are in essence thinking about the relationship between photography (object of enquiry), style (the form and manner of execution) and politics (the social meaning of the writing produced). »« I think good writing is sometimes Susan Sontag, but it is also Kendrick Lamar »« If one looks at the literature on “writing and photography” most cited — take for example Mark Durden’s Fifty Key Writers on Photography (37 white men, 12 white women, 1 woman of colour), or Alan Trachtenburg’s Classic Essays on Photography (26 white men, 2 white women, 1 anonymous author, 0 people of colour), or most university reading lists produced in photography departments — one should justifiably ask where are all the women’s voices, the queer voices, the black and brown voices, the gender-fluid voices? »« but instead to make a socialist point with regard to the inclusion of various idiolects in coming to an understanding of what writing on photography has been, and might become. »Retrouvez l'essai en intégralité ici.