The Invented Eye
by Edward Lucie-Smith
1975 – Paddington Press LTD
Quotes
Page 6
“Sometimes, indeed, we think of photographs as having kind of independent reality of their own, and not as being mere representations of reality.”
Page 7
“But the photograph is an image and not a description, not n approach to reality but in some sense a counterfeit of it, and this means that it alters our consciousness as well as adding to our knowledge of what is shown”
Page 9
“Eadweard Muybridge’s experiments with photographing animal locomotion revealed that the camera saw varieties of truth which the eye was incapable of perceiving”
to be continued – *on page 16*
