![]() ![]() His choice of subjects reflects his way of seeing, as do the brushstrokes of a painter reflect his (Berger, 1972:10). This is less ambivalent than Walter Benjamin’s view, and accords to a greater extent with my own (see above). ![]() It is an appearance, or a set of appearances, which has been detached from the place and time in which it first made its appearance….īerger believes that photos are not a mechanical record we are aware that the image taker has selected the image from many different variations (Berger, 1972:10). The author gives one idea for the definition of an imageĪn image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced. If we see we can also be seen, and this reciprocal nature is more fundamental than that of speaking/dialogue (Berger, 1972:9). We do not simply mechanically see, we choose what to see by moving our eyes (Berger, 1972: 8). Of course what we see informs what we think, but what we think changes the way we see too. As an introduction to this powerful piece the dominance of vision in our lives is suggested by the fact that seeing comes before words- both in the infant, and as we make sense of the world through seeing and thinking (Berger, 1972: 7). ![]()
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