“The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.” ChildrenLongOpportunityAbilityViolenceTelevisionShapesEverydayScreensShootingOur SocietyWarfareConsentEveryday LifeLensesGangKidnappingMagnifyingFamily Violence Author:Sissela Bok
“You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.” WayWritingWellsMatterEnoughMomentsAbleRealizingJusticeTelevisionCamerasLensesCapturedEdited Author:Anthony Bourdain
“We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual alphabet... It's what we see every day in the magazines, on billboards and even on television. All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera. I'm saying there are many, many other ways to produce photographic imagery, and I would imagine that a lot of them have yet to be explored.” WayRunningRealizingHalfImagineProduceTelevisionCamerasMagazinesVisualsImagine ThatLensesImageryAlphabetBillboardsSyntax Author:Adam Fuss