Even if one has a general knowledge of
the way people walk, one knows nothing of a person's posture during the
fractional second of a stride. The act of reaching for a lighter or a spoon is
a familiar routine, yet we hardly know what really goes on between hand and
metal, not to mention how this fluctuates with our moods. Here the camera
intervenes with the resources of its lowerings and liftings, its interruptions
and isolations, its extensions and accelerations, its enlargements and
reductions. The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does
psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
I chose this passage by Walter
Benjamin because it explains a routine. It
shows the repetitive of people and how a picture is worth a thousand words, but
the emotion of a person caught on film can maybe tell a story. Cameras can show daily walks in life, but it
will never tell a story unless it is scripted to.
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