“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.” IfsWorldFirstsLooksTwoOrderConsciousnessWindowPhotographOutside WorldGazing Author:Geoffrey Batchen
“Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.” WorldWayHumansDifferencesSeeingSweetPhotographyHuman ExperienceFluidAnimatedSuspendedHomogeneousNational Geographic Author:Geoffrey Batchen