Saturday 21 April 2018

The constant mediation of the lens

Struck by something that I jotted down from the London Review of Books, talking about the instrusion of images - so many images everywhere, do we really see anything?
Julian Stallabrass wrote this ages ago (in June 2014) in an article 'On Selfies'.
It seems pretty true to me.
 "The constant mediation of the lens is disrupting experience and  memory. Photography, unthinkingly and endlessly made and shared, pollutes awareness and the real world and suppresses memory of anything other than the moment when the image is captured."

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