Copy, archive, signature : a conversation on photography

Translation of an interview that Derrida granted to Hubertus von Amelunxen and Michael Wetzel.
"Originally published in German in 2000 under the title 'Die Photographie als Kopie, Archiv und Signatur' in Theorie der Fotografie IV, 1980-1995."
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We cite from the COVER:
"This book makes available for the first time the entirety of an important interview about photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992. Addressing presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation, the volatility of the subject, and the concept of memory, Derrida offers a penetrating intervention into the distinctive nature of photography vis-à-vis related technologies such as cinema, television, and video. Questioning the divides between old and new media, original and reproduction, and analog and digital recording, he provides stimulating insights into how we think about the photographic image. Gerhard Richters introduction meditates on the relationship between deconstruction and photography by way of the concepts of translation and invention."