« We did not dare, at the beginning of photography, look too long people’s faces fixed on the plate. It was believed that these faces were themselves able to see us »
Walter Benjamin
« The moment of fuzzy photograph is identifiable … no other. It is that of a tragic vacillation between finitude and transfigured eternity. Fuzzy photography speaks less of the past than the future. She opens the image to the size of the myth. »
This reflection of the analyst and critic Serge Tisseron applies perfectly to the « looks of Portraits » shake Jean-Robert Franco.