DAVID BATE, TITANIC AT THE DOCK
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Titanic at the Dock
David Bate
How do you photograph the trace of a trace? If a photograph shows what is visible in front of the lens, the job of the photographer is surely to show what it has seen? But what if the original object you want to photograph is missing, how is the presence of that object to be signified? How do you say something that is meaningful when the object is not there, when you have to photograph it by ‘other means’? This is a question about photography and memory: about how and what we are able to remember through pictures when the thing to be pictured is not the original object.