....... these longings, these latent expectations for that very image, lays at the moment excactly right behind our collective "blind spot" called: photography.
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Photography became our addiction, it's blinding us. This photographic realism is depending on huge logistical infrastructures and highly sophisticated technology.
So we don't know anymore how to cope with other sorts of realisms.
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And by the way, don't forget that all our media uses this concept of lineair perspective. It is one of the strong and driving forces in a process which we call today: globalisation.