General Thoughts

I was recently reading a book by Rosalind Kraus (who is a philosophers and art critic) and came across this interesting quote regarding photography:

'Camera-seeing is...an extraordinary extension of normal vision, one that supplements the deficiencies of the naked eye. The camera covers and arms this nakedness, it acts as a kind of prosthesis, enlarging the capacity of the human body...But in increasing the ways in which the world can be present to vision, the camera mediates that presence, gets between the viewer and the world, shapes reality according to its terms. Thus what supplements and enlarges human vision also supplants the viewer himself; the camera is the aid that comes to usurp.'

(In: The Originality of the Avant-Garde, 1981)

Any thoughts?

Zainab