The photograph stands outside of the zone of sensitivity. It has a telescopic quality; one can tell that the event photographed is seen by insensitive and invulnerable eye. It records the bullet in mid-flight just as easy as it captures a man at the moment an explosion tears him apart. This is our own peculiar way of seeing, and photography is nothing other than an instrument of our own peculiar nature.(p39)
I chose this passage because it relates to all the pieces of art we have seen, it is capturing a moment of their emotions and expressionism as a picture.The passage is saying that when someone takes a picture or creates one, it is from which they see it. When we studied the pieces of art, it was from expressionism that they built their art work from.
Artist create pictures from their own experience from life and how they were effected. They wanted to created something that expressed how they felt when they saw certain events take place in their lives. For example, Dada Ottis painting were of his experience in the war. His paintings were of men at combat and they looked disfigured, while in battle. This made a statement that the men in war were damaged from what they have been through during the war. He was very detailed on the body disfigurement, which was insensitive to the viewers, but that's what his saw through his eyes as a person.
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