Alejo Carpentier
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Latency of an image: On Axel Töpfer & Jo Preußler’s silent movie of Los Pasos Perdidos
“It is neither the acacia thorn nor the edge of emergence“1 I recall a conversation with a friend about photography in the darkroom—about negatives and the moment before the image appears. At one point, she spoke of that critical, decisive instant: the latent photograph. According to one definition: “The latent image is an invisible image…