1 November

The seductive danger of lenses. A metaphysics was added to lenses that has created all sorts of confusion. People started to believe that the things they could now see were a different level of reality. It's the same illusion of the 'bird's eye view', the belief that you see more if you zoom out - the 'big picture' - and if you zoom in you see the 'parts' that make up that big picture. But a lens just removes some details and foregrounds others, there are no levels.