This work is a result of organizing and making some sense out of a pile of marginal notes - thoughts about how the image manages to move us. Even if it grounds itself in the composition of photographic image, its contents are abstract and general enough to be applicable to almost all visual arts. Based on the so called "pure photography" (formally minimalist, and rejecting the representational content not essential to the photographic medium itself), the thoughts of this text already start on an abstract ground, deducting the more concrete conclusions from something that feels absoluite. Sometimes an abstract system of ideas does not translate well to the linear language we speak. That's where formalism has to give up, just so that something gets to be written at all. I am saying all this as an recommendation for the best reading approach: if logic should fail, one can always turn to poetry. Just how we enjoy the art itself, we should read this using the intuitive visual thoughts which exist before they get grabbed by the prudence of our intellect. An honest approach alwyas wins: it's all in our eye, already.

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