The book on Herodias has another basic weakness

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Herodeis photographs do not constitute a look a point of view on the subject and even if viewed individually they do not most justify their thematic importance. In addition the aesthetic and artistic quality of the photographs are far from what Ordolis has accustomed us to. its somewhat naive texts that introduce and define the individual sections into which the photographs are arbitrarily and without reason classified. These texts first of all serve no purpose. And for that alone they should be eliminated. But it is a widespread especially in the past habit of embellishing and accompanying photos with poetic texts especially when they thought that what was depicted in the photos was not particularly important.

The texts thus reflexively gave the photographs the artistic tone that would justify them. To give an idea of ​​these texts I quote some of the titles of the sections Even the inanimate make promises. Capturing the moment that photo background removing gathers the toil of a lifetime for a thrill. Herodio opens an embrace. Stitched in the soul are the scars of creation. The introductory texts within the sections are developed in a similar style. The faith that we all show in what our eyes see has often been the reason for not allowing the rest of the senses and especially our mind to work in parallel more penetratingly more critically.



The photograph was wronged by its direct and charming relationship with sight because after initially impressing as an extension of our eyes in eternity it was then assimilated into our everyday life as selfevident and given. In recent years we have noticed two trends in the field of photography. On the one hand we have the one that with a strong tinge of populism overthematizes the given character of photography and extends it to the level of the illustration of the world. This trend expresses the view that we live in the age of the image because the image shows us more easily what we cannot say. The reason is oversimplified and reduced to the figurative.