Chapter 1

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Mark Galer

The Frame

From photographs each of us can learn more about the world. Images not only inform us about the products we never knew we needed, the events, people and places too distant or remote for us to see with our own eyes, but also tell us more about the things we thought we al ready knew. Most of us are too preoccupied to stand and look at something for any great amount of time. We glance at some thing briefly and think we have seen it.

Our conditioning or desires often tell us what we have seen or would like to see. When we look at a pho to graph of some thing ordinary, however, it may show us the object as we had never ...

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