Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.
People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
People see images now more than they see movies.
The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown.
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
