Snapshots of Truth? How the camera frames reality


	Snapshots of Truth? How the camera frames reality

abailart

11-21-2007 3:22 AM

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11-21-2007 4:50 AM

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Very interesting. Yet the question is, isn't what the eye (through the mediation of camera, or without it) and the mind 'snap shoot' by definition a fraction? OR, better yet, aren't we wrongly assuming there is a 'something else' which is other than a snap shot?
My point is, the very procedure of applying meaning lies within the play of creating contexts and playing their boundaries.

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