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“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at”
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“A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn’t the truth either. It’s more like a fleeting, subjective impression.”
― Understanding a Photograph
― Understanding a Photograph
“In no other form of society in history has there been such a concentration of images, such a density of visual messages.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed is female. Thus she turns herself into an object of vision: a sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
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