![]() Pornography ordinarily represents the sexual organs, making them into a motionless object (a fetish), flattered like an idol that does not leave its niche for me, there is no punctum in the pornographic image at most it amuses me (and even then, boredom follows quickly). The presence (the dynamics) of this blind field is, I believe, what distinguishes the erotic photograph from the pornographic photograph. A proof a contrario: Mapplethorpe shifts his close-ups of genitalia from the pornographic to the erotic by photographing the fabric of underwear at very close range: the photograph is no longer unary, since I am interested in the texture of the material. Like a shop window which shows only one illuminated piece of jewelry, it is completely constituted by the presentation of only one thing: sex: no secondary, untimely object ever manages to half conceal, delay, or distract. It is always a naive photograph, without intention and without calculation. Nothing more homogeneous than a pornographic photograph. ![]() ![]() “Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured). ![]()
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