Civil War photographer Mathew
Brady said The camera is the eye of
History*
perhaps he can attest for the War
and forward through all the worlds conflicts
-- he cites its opticks in the
light of warfare -- forward until the recent advent of our
cruelest killing machine
the drone
whose eyes are closed to us
whose eyes are now fixed and
determinant of History
its cameras are not objective
they See
they are subjective
they cannot talk of History because
they are not passive observers
they are opaque
they are not witnesses(hunters)
they cannot prevaricate
there is a contingency who may believe
its Omnipresent Eyes can reflect the Truth
though one would have to question
if the revealed data is raw or if it has been manipulated
inconveniently it can also be erased
a drone Sees only what it is
directed to see
his longstanding knock of cameras
and drones and why he would refute Bradys pronouncement is that a camera Sees only
what its pointed at
it lacks peripheral or the
curiosity to be distracted by its peripheral and look furthur
possibly just outside its frame excused
excised might be the very evidence that belies the Truth it paints and could reveal
something else entirely
there are unexamined Points of
View Frames of Reference Biases
and without those blatantly
apparent
without bitter Transparency
The Camera The Eye of History
would mock History
and worse
fabricate it
no decision made affecting a
drones lethality and History will ever involve true democratic discourse
1638, Twosday,
12 7. 16
0927,
Thursday, 14 7. 16
* Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
