Today I received a text from my friend, Adam, who invited me to an off-Broadway show. The whole thing was very last minute, as he had gotten 2 free tickets to a show at the Algonquin Theater, which is right around the corner from the 23^rd street building of Baruch. We got there and were given our tickets to An Evening at the Carlyle. We were told our seats were really good because they were in the 5^th row! Yes, we were seated in the 5^th row… but they forgot to mention that there are only 7 rows in the theater.

Our review in class today of the book Camera Lucida ushered in a new understanding of photography as a medium in itself. What is a photograph, but a mere capture of a moment. A true moment? Maybe not. But a moment nonetheless. As the author notes, photographs ( portraits in particular) may not be as realistic as they seem. In the sense, that a person no matter how much they resist, is inevitably posing for a picture whether they smile or not, whether they maintain eye contact or not. The mere fact of knowing that they are being photographed changes the individual.

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