Seeing Anew?
Photography closes the gap between perception and a representation of reality but widens it in terms of representation of truth. On the use of mounted cameras: Police Body Cameras: What Do You See? We expect too much truth from cameras, when they are nothing more than multi-purpose light recorders, that most people use to make art. The "ordinariness" of the technology, is in stark contrast to its use forensically, and so can make it more unserious. "Deceptive intensity" is something cameras are very good a producing: we see a representation of what the photographer saw, but might not have been the reality at the time of the capture; there were other things at the scene and on the periphery. Even if there was a camera everywhere, their lenses are not like the human eye (and in some cases better than the human eye). It must be very difficult to stage these kinds of events, as the decisive moment is missing. Cameras "prioritize" the act of seeing ...
