The Zone of Photography: Magic, Ghosts and Haecceity

Photography evidences presence, but what does it present? This article explores the notion of magic in photography through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept ‘haecceity’, Jacques Derrida’s logic ‘supplement’ Jean-François Lyotard’s ‘inhuman’. The sections ‘The Zone Photography’, ‘Ghosts in/of Machine’, Crypt Encryption’, ‘Affect-Event-Haecceity’ ‘Magic, Consumerism, Desire’ consider how provides a ‘zone’ that encrypts desires its photographer viewer. A photograph, various forms appearances, from scientific instrument to personal documentation, bears our need desire be affected. photographic zone can connect with anxiety, fear, grief, ha ppiness are latent within irrationality is never past as continually unfolds into, entangled with, fabric present. Through consideration we will not happen people magic. We appear.