Video Gazing

The Psychology of the Lens

  "What is surely needed is a complementary system of communication that will put men and women in touch   with each other and with the   world around them. It will need to feed their desire for art, entertainment and   information, bring their immediate present into contact with   the historical past, and cater for their senses   and emotions as well as their intellect. Video, it seems to me, is ideally placed to occupy this role" (Armes 1989: 212).

  I am interested in a "direct intervention in life" (Roy Armes 1989 On Video: 213)

  "Photography is the concentration of the gaze" (Cartier-Bresson in Montier 1996 Henri   Cartier-Bresson and the Artless art: 229).