\u201dThe nature of photography is the pose\u201d, asserts the French philosopher Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Something has posed before the camera lens and is captured for eternity. \u201cClick\u201d \u2013 a halt in the continuum of time. Something took place there and then, and reminds us of our mortality and the transitoriness of all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this exhibition it is Troms\u00f8 which poses, with people and milieus as photographic fragments of the city\u2019s immediate and distant past. Recognisable to some, alien to others. Here are shown images from Troms\u00f8 ranging from portraits of citizens in the mid-1800s to today\u2019s busy crowded centre. Persuasive historical sources in possession of \u201cthe photograph\u2019s authority\u201d, as culture critic Susan Sontag formulated it in her collection of essays entitled On Photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps it is here the magic of the photograph lies: its ability to confirm a bygone reality by creating proximity and participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201dPhotographs turn the past into an object of tender regard, scrambling moral distinctions and disarming historical judgements by the generalized pathos of looking at time past.\u201d<\/p>Susan Sontag, On Photography<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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