Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. It is common now for people to insist upon their experience of a violent event in which they were caught up - a plane crash, a shoot-out, a terrorist bombing - that 'it seemed like a movie.' This is said, other descriptions seeming insufficient, in order to explain how real it was. While many people in non-industrialized countries still feel apprehensive when being photographed, divining it to be some kind of trespass, an act of disrespect, a sublimated looting of the personality or the culture, people in industrialized countries seek to have their photographs taken - feel that they are images, and are made real by photographs.

Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invente…

All modern wars, even when their aims are the traditional ones, such as territorial aggrandizement or the acquisition of scarce resources, are cast as clashes …

The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (includi…

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (includi…

It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on.