Desire; A word that must not be mistaken for meaning. Where
desire is contingent to the author, meaning is not. This battle between meaning
and desire pokes it’s head in Wyse’s chapter entitled, “Too Drunk to Fuck (On
the Anxiety of Photography.) Wyse explains that “desire permeates photography”
(Pg. 71). It has a way to be manifested in a retrospect of ways. We may project
meaning that is not among a photograph, but desire is dependent on a
photographer. Photographic pieces transmit the weight of desire. Through
photographs, we can display in fact our objects of desire. Williams, (a
photographer mentioned in Wyse’s article), leaves us with the idea that restraining
emotion is a solution for the anxiety of photographic desire.
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