"… an object imposes itself – suddenly, one sees it, because of certain effects of light, of contrasts and things like that, it isolates itself and it creates a sense of emptiness. Everything around it seems to disappear, and nothing exists but this particular thing, which you then capture technologically, objectively.`"
— Jean Baudrillard. “The Ecstasy of Photography: Interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg”. In Art and Artifact. Nicholas Zurbrugg (Editor). London: Sage Publications, 1997:34.