The Camera Eye

    From what I gathered from the essay, the author focused on the camera eye, the human eye, and reality.  All of these are separate entities; yet they interact with each other to produce a stationary or moving image.  This was articulated when the author wrote, “Consider this prodigy for its virtually untapped talents, viewpoints it possesses more readily recognizable as visually non-human yet within the realm of humanly imaginable.” Perhaps there is no such thing as a “stationary” image though, because a photograph has a drive in some way and captures motion, and the technology is in a constant state of change.  This article, in the most poetic of terms, personified the photograph.  While I share in the general confusion towards the class, I feel like the author is baffled by images’ complexity as well, and sorting through all of their meanings and implications.  This essay reminds me of an essay I am reading for another class, Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” in which Sontag shares a similar thought with this author on “reality” as it relates to photography.  Both authors recognize photographs tweak some degree of reality based on the photographer’s perspective and how the capture the scene.  They captured an event, but it still a personalized version of the event that sways the audience’s reaction.