Exploring the Invention of Hysteria
Image can be something I produce to say who I want you to believe I am or it can be something I produce to explore who I am.
Images produced to explore the authentic or to hide it behind the persona.
There is something about how the images we make take on a life of their own and demand an audience. The way the audience interacts with the image changes the way others perceive it.
The celebrity demands an audience to feed their ego. The projections of the audience onto the celebrity changes the dynamic producing dissonance. The celebrity adjusts to become the person the audience demand. They are no longer themselves they become an image of our projections but they can’t perform this role perfectly because they still have vestiges of self.
Only in death do they become perfect vessels for our projections: Princes Diana, Jade Goody, Michael Jackson.
Exploring and producing some more images. Didi- Huberman’s “invention of Hysteria – Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière”. is proving to be a good source of ideas.
Image making and madness. Image making is seen as being so powerful that the major religions ban its practice.
My image is the persona I present to the world. To a certain extent I have control over the image I wish to expose. Through the image I project I can manipulate how others to see me.
The image I have of myself interacts with the image you have of yourself. Our world is mediated through the images we present to each other.
If there is dissonance between the image I’m projecting and how you perceive me I feel uncomfortable
There is the image making that contributes to the value of the image makers image and the reverse where the image makers image gives value to the image.
What happens when the image stares back?
What do images want?
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