"Summer Was Inside the Marble": Marguerite Duras and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour

Author: Mavor, Carol

Source: Photography and Culture, Volume 1, Number 1, July 2008 , pp. 27-49(23)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

"Summer Was Inside the Marble" acknowledges that the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima demands a new post-nuclear indexicality, in order to embrace the unimaginable: representing the immaterial. With an emphasis on Resnais and Duras's 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, this essay reads photography's early prints (Talbot and Atkins) alongside the "photographs left on stone," shadows of bodies left behind from the terrible radiation that devoured them on the spot. At hand are issues of memory, seeingness, forgetting, devastating beauty, and the unrepresentability of both love and the possible annihilation of the world.

Keywords: GILLES DELEUZE; FORGETTING; HIROSHIMA; MEMORY; PHOTOGRAPHY; POST-NUCLEAR REPRESENTATION; MARCEL PROUST; SPATIALITY

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.2752/175145108784861464

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