I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by th…

- Christian Metz

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

- Christian Metz

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of l…

- Christian Metz

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relations…

- Christian Metz

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us th…

- Christian Metz

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

- Christian Metz

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

- Christian Metz