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  • The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

    "Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films" edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, (p. 113), 2004.