I’m in the movie theater. The guy in front of me is playing with his new iPhone. Ahead of her is a woman working on her laptop. In the mosques in Istanbul I took pictures of everyone taking pictures of their families and walking around staring into their video cameras. At my friend Will’s wedding last weekend, I caught one photographer taking a picture of another photographer shooting the party, and a third person videotaping her. I took a picture of the three of them, maybe. Clearly, humans are interested with each other, but why is it that we are even more fascinated by seeing each other on screen - any kind of screen? There is something about a screen, or even a photograph, that transforms the real, the actual, the moment, into an event, a thing, something somehow different from what passes before our eyes unmitigated, even if of course it’s exactly the same thing.
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