A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

They say a picture is worth a thousnd words. How many words could you come up with when viewing this picture of Emmanuel Levinas in his study. For those who know him perhaps the picture is quite worth more than a thousand words; in the mind of Levinas, the frozen image of art, perhaps photography, too, only calls to mind the trace of the other. In one sense the image here is a work of the worker, but definitely not the worker. On the other hand, just as the worker is worth his keep, so is his image worthy of what cannot be contained by an image, the person who absolves himself from the present frozen representation or illumination that brings to light that which cannot gather into one the other before me-the others of the other, too.

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