In his Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes defined the EIDOS of photography as the essence of photography that separates it from all artifices, methods and categories.
In Lewis Payne's portrait, the essence is a man who knows that he is going to die. The pose shows not only the certainty of death, but also the acceptance of faith.
In the contemporary history of photography, in which so many areas of art overlap and leave their mark, what has become of the essence of photography?
We explore it in the Microphotography collection, a point of connection between medicine and art.
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