La Petite Mort

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An intimate, sexual and flesh related photography blog by Cyril Costilhes

"La petite mort, French for "the little death", is a metaphor for orgasm. More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm, or a short period of melancholy or transcendence, as a result of the expenditure of the "life force".
Literary critic Roland Barthes spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature. He metaphorically used the concept to describe the feeling one should get when experiencing any great literature."

January 8, 2010

Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, Revelations.

“Being opposed to the fantastic practices of Witkin or the justificatory ones of Nachtwey, Tsurisaki Kiyotaka proposes his own method of presenting the dead person in contemporary photography: an attitude without concession, where the corpses take back their rightful place in social space and symbolic systems.”

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