tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post1603832266099098803..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Seeing Seeing, or The Generous ImageDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-55969056335341112552008-05-09T07:45:00.000-07:002008-05-09T07:45:00.000-07:00What a beautiful concept: a generous image. There ...What a beautiful concept: a generous image. There is a certain amount of reciprocity required of a viewer to appreciate such generosity, while never fulling grasping the sheer magnitude of it - there is of course no one privileged viewing that reveals the Truth of an image. I also love your idea of an embodied image. It's so easy to see the viewer as embodied and, in part, giving over one's body to an image - letting the image work you over. But the image gazes back, becomes an equal member of the exchange, equally giving of itself (hence generous), gaining and losing something. No longer is it an image, but part of a vast network of exchanges - events. I know I'm paraphrasing you now, but I'm awed by the simplicity and beauty of the idea. Ethical, yet amoral. We're not obligated to see the moral and the image is not obligated to be moral or reveal any sense morality or virtue - instead we are to simply "grant the image the respect it so eloquently requests." Brilliant.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00515881180137058087noreply@blogger.com