Please comment on your favorite passage from Moholy-Nagy’s text
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“Photography, then, imparts a heightened, or (in so far as our eyes are concerned) increased, power of sight in terms of time and space.”
I like this statement as it reminds me that photography lets us see what cannot normally be seen; it is a different way or perspective of looking at the same thing. It can be enlightening, in that it allows us to see intimacies of our everyday that we overlook whether consciously or unconsciously. It is a tool that allows us to investigate our surroundings at different levels, perspectives, values.
Thanks to the photographer humanity has acquired the power of perceiving its surrounding and its very existence, with new eyes.
This statement underscores how photography has helped “humanity” to rediscover its own environment. Indeed, it emphasizes that it is not the world around us that has radically changed, but that it is actually our way to see it. Hence, thanks to the diversity of techniques photography offers, humans are now able to uncover another meaning in what they see in their everyday lives. Thanks to photography, a familiar object can take on another dimension and appear to intrigue as much as something that we would have never seen. Therefore, it is unlikely that people will get bored or tired to perceive their surrounding environment, since photography enables them to glance at it in a different way shots after shots.
“In photography we must learn to seek, not the ‘picture,’ not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.”
I really like this statement. learn to seek for the ideal instrument of expression.