Sequence (Con)Sequence: (Sub)Versions of Photography in the 80s

As the writer states, ""Fragmentary and discontinuous, many
contemporary groupings of photographs appear to allude to (not
illustrate, not narrate) psychic spills and halts and breaks.
Remnants of the instability of signification and apparently
haphazard contiguities appear to approximate the general image
scuffle of contemporary experience''. An example of such a
'photographic grouping' is Vikky Alexander's GRACE (a cross
filled with staged portraits of Elvis Presley, centered around
the word GRACE), a piece which addresses the issue of
photographic fiction as both co-presence and the allure of a
specific absence. This essay is an excerpt from a recent
Aperture publication under the same title.