This short poem grapples with so many themes at once seeing, being seen, desire, racism, selfhood and memory.The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with a declarative, I don't like being photographed, then introduces a memory.The two quotes from Sontag and Bishop expand the poem.Sontag's moves the poem into the realm of the photograph as signifier, as representative of the event but not the event itself.
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