Techniques of the Observer: Camera Obscura and Its Subject

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‘Decorporealizing vision’ is a term that may be used the way information is taken and broken down into different forms by a person. When Crary uses this phrase, he tries to talk about the images that are taken by photographers. Crary believes that the information that has been captured is stored in mind, and an individual can get to see it visually. However, the information that is seen in photographs must be informed by what one sees through their eyes. That is the reason as to why Crary talks of decorporealizing vision. Crary believes that the mind has first to manufacture what the eyes get to see in a photograph that has been taken for it to interpret the image (Crary 32). However, since the image may not be so clear, the information that is captured may be considered as blurry in vision. The mind may n...