The Discovery of Vision
I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT VISION SO MUCH in the last several years that I am self-conscious writing about it further. Some of that self-consciousness comes from revisiting the same ideas and trying to find different words to express them, and some of that self-consciousness comes from the knowledge that, as much as I think about photographic vision as an idea or a metaphor, it always eludes me. It’s necessarily a little blurry around the edges; it’s hard to define. This puts me in a tough spot, and presents a challenge not unlike, I imagine, trying to nail down jello.
We all photograph for different reasons, and those reasons are inseparably part of our vision. So I’m not keen to beat my head against the keyboard again in an ...
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