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Jacques Derrida’s Work on Photography -Photography as Possibility of Delay-

Whang Sun Young 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study attempts to make an analysis of Jacques Derrida’s work on photography and to show how photography and philosophy overlap in an indistinguishable way. Derrida's theory of photography is not a philosophical examination of photographic images, but rather a precondition for making one another possible. It contains Derrida’s important concepts and centers around questions of the representation, time, death, mourning, singularity and repetition. Through one of Derrida’s texts on photography, Demeure, Athènes, this study tries to think and to stage the relationship between philosophy and photography with a focus on the concept of time delay. A photographic image, which is a play of light and shadow, is a space that can not be explained by life and death, presence and absence, or all of the conflict structures, and is impossible to represent completely. Through Derrida’s work on photography, this study examines the photographic image as the time delay, spectral image, and remains of language, and opens the reader to a new way of thinking.

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