The Tourist #62

p.187

“Complex places are consumed as lightweight pre-arranged photo-scenes and experiencing is akin to seeing, seeing reduced to glancing and picture making to clicking.”

Clickity Clackity Looney tune whack.

Architecture is designed with seeing in mind.

Everyone has seen more impressive buildings in photographs than in life. Everyone that is not able to travel at will on a whim for the purposes of seeing impressive buildings.

The camera does not reduce us to only eyes just as a pen or a keyboard does not reduce us to only hands.