Jean-Marc Dreyfus in NYT: ‘Surely unknown to Mr. Doisneau, nine years earlier, there was another kiss captured on film in Paris that was much more spontaneous, just as passionate — far more desperate — between two Jews about to be separated by Vichy police.’

And: ‘What gives these newly discovered photographs their singular power is not only what they show but the fact that they survived at all. They remind us that the past is never entirely buried, and that images can unexpectedly return to challenge the void of memory and representation.’

As well: ‘The value of an image is entirely dependent on context. Taken to prove racial superiority, these 98 photos on display through December now show depravity.’

Indeed, when it comes to real estate and image, context is everything.

The question remains: do we need a memory without voids?

At what point does the representation of depravity become another sort of fetishism?

(a sf 2132)