Image and the Photographic Allusion

Abstract

Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: All photography is staged. Every image is objectified, yet certain images possess something indisputably allusive, undirected, inexplicit and enigmatic. The desirable ineffaceability of an indirect allusion, with all its implied ambiguity, is invariably an unnamable quintessence. Our most poignant connection to such photographic paradoxes, which have the power to change our social consciousness, occupies part of our thinking mind far away from the bluntness of a direct index of a particular thing or narrative. To enter the unrestricted territory of meditative intimations, the artist must convey the information without directly unveiling it. This lies at the heart of this exhibition: the revelation sans the reveal.