Photography as a Writing Machine: Notes on Christian Dotremont’s Logoneiges
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_5Keywords:
Christian Dotremont, writing, logogram, experimental poetry, photography, logoneigeAbstract
In 1963, Christian Dotremont began to contrive his “logoneiges” during a trip across Lapland, artworks which take to the limit the “logogrammes”, creations between calligraphy and verse. Here the white of the paper is replaced with the infinite whiteness of Lapland’s landscape. Indeed, the “logoneige” would disappear if a “second writing” were not added: the photographs themselves. By analyzing alongside Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, with the writings of Dotremont, we propose that photography is, in the “logoneiges”, not only a mere whitness but a writing tool, that re-produces the poetic sense. We want to develop this multiple time that creates even triple writings compared with “logogrammes”, attempting to prove the poetical reach of this singular machine.
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