Ways of seeing depend largely on habit and convention, the main convention being perspective. This allows for the eye to be the center of the visual world, says the video’s narrator.
According the narrator, the camera is a version of a “mechanical eye” that has changed everything. “Cameras are free from the boundaries of time and space” and have impacted how humans view things. For example, paintings were displayed in buildings that were a part of how the museum/church was designed, everything around the painting was part of its meaning. Now, thanks to photographs, you can’t feel the authenticity of artwork when looking at a photo of it. We don’t travel to images; we expect them to come to us.
Not only do photographs influence how we see, but also so does the noise around us or perhaps something else we saw earlier that day. Everything we encounter can affect our perception of sight and feeling.
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