“The photographic camera then becomes a metaphor of vision. »

Gilles A. Tiberghien, Nature in art, Under the gaze of photography, Arles, Photo Pocket Actes Sud, 2005, p. 7.

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Capturing moments of life

We can then consider the eye looking at the photographic lens to capture an image as the main and primary tool. The role of the eye is then to focus on a point, capturing light in its retina and thus an image. There is no image without an object, nor an object without light.