The theoretical principle that will guide my project is the partial object, the objet a. Photography will allow us to write with these objects. While the objet a is not a specific object, it can be recognized as the excess significance (or attraction?) that accrues to an object or scene in a photograph. It is Barthes punctum, the "surplus" value, exchange value, commodity value of an image. The values or lifestyles associated with a scene or object.
As Lacan writes, "the objet a in the field of the visible is the gaze" (105).
The key for me will be able to place myself in the correct position to see how I am fixed by the gaze.
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