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'Words of Light' and the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank

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5 pages. This paper compares the wreckage of the Hibernia Bank in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Eduardo Cadava's 'Words of Light', a series of theses on photography. Comparing photographs as ghosts of history or of dead things somehow that keep on living, Cadava's words remind us that the photo of the Hibernia Bank keeps us reminded of the bank as it was before it's fall in the Earthquake of 1906.

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the photo of the Hibernia Bank keeps us reminded of the bank as it was before its fall in the Earthquake of 1906. JGAhiber.rtf Words of Light and the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank 10/2002 to Use This Paper Properly, INTRODUCTION This paper compares the wreckage of the Hibernia Bank in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Eduardo Cadavas Words of Light, a series of theses on photography. Comparing photographs as ghosts of history or of dead things somehow that keep on living, Cadavas words remind us that the photo of the Hibernia Bank keeps us reminded of the bank as it was before its fall in the Earthquake of 1906. CADAVAS WORDS OF LIGHT Eduardo Cadavas Words of Light contains several different theses describing his feelings about photography and photographs. These literary vignettes are like so many photographs themselves, each succinct thesis representing a moment in time, much like that of a photograph. His words capture a feeling, a thought, and hold them there for all time, frozen in the moment. Is this not the same as a photograph, capturing for all to see one moment in time that shall never change in the viewer (or readers) mind? To liken Cadavas words to the photograph of the wreckage of the Hibernia Bank is to compare two different media that have much the same result. The Hibernia Bank was photographed in a moment of time as it stood in ruins, right after the San Francisco earthquake (and subsequent fire) of 1906. These ruins will stand forever the same in the viewers mind, even though the bank was later rebuilt. Viewing the photograph of the ...

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