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Photography and seeing

The history and philosophy of the photograph. How the camera changed what humans notice.

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New Vision Photography

The 1920s movement that used extreme angles and close-ups to break old habits of perception.

📄metmuseum.org3d ago
Does photography make us act or inure us to despair?

Wrestles with Sontag's question about images of suffering. Still urgently relevant.

📄aeon.co3d ago
On Photography

Susan Sontag's 1977 landmark essays on how photography shapes our relationship to reality.

📄en.wikipedia.org3d ago
Ways of Seeing

John Berger's 1972 BBC series fundamentally changed how we think about looking at images. The starting point.

📄en.wikipedia.org3d ago