"The multiplication of channels has slowly created the reverse feeling of a fundamental 'unity' of all images and sounds on television."

--Serge Daney, "Saint Zelig, Pray for Us" (1987; translated by Laurent Kretzschmar)

Daney with Les Straubs

The photograph is exactly as you'd imagine them--Huillet turned away (after all, Straub is the mouth, the "public figure"), but smiling, Straub impishly smoking a pipe. The photo accompanies a short Serge Daney piece from 1984, something I spent too long poring over with a dictionary, sad to discover that it yielded few secrets or revelations. The article is already gone from my memory, but the photograph remains.