Hello Pete, Believe it or not, I had the intuition 2 days ago, reading the "Human eye " thread, that you, Pete, would post something about it and here it comes ! Why did I think of the intervention of a blind photographer ?
Just because the discussion was slowly but surely expanding from a question about the "Image" to a question about the "Vision" , and when it comes to "Vision" we all know that visually impaired and/or blind people have a lot to say... While writing this , I just cannot prevent myself from quoting some lines of the back cover of Evgen Bavcar' s book "Le voyeur absolu". Evgen Bavcar is a Slovenian born (Vojke Flis, if you are still on this list, you probably know him!) blind photographer living in France since the 70's; he is also a universitary researcher in philosophy and aesthetics. Here is my translation for the question he rises in his book : This exceptional experience [a blind man taking photographs] leads to this essential question : Would not be - before any other thing - photography, a mental image of the world, and only that ? An effect of sensuality, for which the print would only constitute a secondary phenomenon ? Human eye ? Pinhole camera ? Image ? Vision ?... 2003 begins with all these questions and, I'm sure, 2003 will end with all these questions ;-) Let's share our Visions, let's share our Images Cheers from France Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "pete eckert" <peteeck...@mindspring.com> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] eye camera > Hello All, > > The discussion comparing the eye and camera has been interesting. Here is a > spin on it for you. There has been some projects going on to replace > damaged retinas with implants. A few of these projects involve sending > pictures to a receiver in the eye. The projects have the blind community > very excited. I as a blind photographer may someday be able to see my own > work. > > Pete > > > _______________________________________________ > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ >
