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Possession

"Possession in a photograph is a particularly vivid rendering of a subject that causes both the photographer and the viewer to have the feeling that the image is imbued with personal significance through the force of its near literal appropriation. The physicality of the subjects portrayal promotes the belief that the photograph is a substitute for the thing itself." [Minor White Retrospective, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2/91]

C O N S I D E R:

Having or taking - ownership

Hold

Property

Faculty, state, quality, attribute, knowledge, Information,

Obsession by a feeling or idea

The feeling or idea itself

To keep or to maintain

To occupy or hold

To dominate or to control

To actuate

To cause

To influence

To seize or take

To gain or win

R  E  F  E  R  E  N  C  E  S

Possession [ME < L possession- (s. of possessio) a having or taking possession < (1) possessus, ptp. of possidere to have and hold (opposed to dominari to own absolutely); (2) possessus, ptp. of possidere to take possession of; see -ION]

[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House,1968.]

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