Arnold Weinstein - A Scream Goes Through The House - Plot & Excerpts
In a less garish, less lurid mode, Ann's visits to her ophthalmologist, Dr. Et-tinger, replay the father syndrome, particularly when he performs laser surgery on her damaged retina, warning her that if she moves at the wrong moment, he could blind her, translating into a medical code the lethal danger she has confronted all her life in the form of an older man with a camera. Dr. Ettinger's laser surgery, like Ann's work with Visage Video, like her father's famous photographs, spells out the choral dimensions of Harrison's title, Exposure. Here, in this ultramodern text, we see state-of-the-art imaging techniques, the fine flower of a scientific practice that can now read the body "uninvasively," and what knocks us over the head is how invasive it all is. Getting your picture, getting your reading, is the bane of this young woman's life, with the added touch that she now does it for a living herself. Ann Rogers is, of course, the text's text, the body that has been photographed forever, with all its poor secrets on view, a body that still wears signs of its history, signs present in the scars left by the times she burned herself, cut herself with a knife, just to know that she could still feel something.
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