What Are We Losing?

For most of history, your visual understanding of what the world was and your place within it really came down to what you immediately saw around you. Benhamin says that as these people who are among the first to ever gaze into a camera lins to record their likeness, wonder if any of them ever noticed that the camera wasn't gazing back at them. It should be said, as we all know, there is a big difference between being face to face, looking at some one and seeing a picture of them.