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We can now understand the difficulty of creating
a static image of sexual nakedness. In lived sexual experience nakedness is a process rather than a state. If one moment of that process is isolated, its image will seem banal and its banality, instead of serving as a bridge between two intense imaginative states, will be chilling.

Every drawing or painting that used perspective proposed to the spectator that he was the unique centre of the world. The camera - and more particularly the movie camera - demonstrated that there was no centre.

Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent.

[1] Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak.