HEIDEGGER AS A PHOTO MODEL/OR HOW TO PULL A TIGER'S TAIL WITHOUT BEING EATEN * Kuzin Yuri Vladimirovich Union of Cinematographers of Russia (St. Petersburg) The article analyzes a photograph in which the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger squints his right eye and raises the "pointing finger" of his right hand. Subjecting the image to hermeneutic, phenomenological, and semiotic analysis, the author hypothesizes that Cratylus' Heideggerian gesture urges us not to forget the words of Parmenides: what does not exist, has not been, and will never be, cannot exist as something real...