Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
Desire has no history.
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.