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Wandering Tokyo in the rain, reflecting on screens
Original: Still in Tokyo. Still wandering. Not lost. We spend so much effort erasing the medium: the frame, the filter, the screen
A writer reflects on time spent wandering through Tokyo, arguing that people put great effort into erasing the medium between themselves and what they see: the frame, the filter, the screen. The cleaner the image, the less we notice we are watching, the reflection suggests, and Tokyo in the rain made that mediation impossible to forget. The note touches on photography, attention and how a view becomes something more than an image when weather and place intrude.
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- Still in Tokyo. Still wandering. Not lost. We spend so much effort erasing the medium: the frame, the filter, the screen between us and whatever we're looking at. The cleaner the image, the less we notice we're watching. Tokyo, in the rain, didn't let me forget. Is a view more… · Marcociappelli@infosec.exchange · 2
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