Began reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger (1973). Not much reading time but on page 10 I like the idea of image making being linked to individuality during the Renaissance. Page 11 reads "The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past." Page 16 discusses the European idea that reality and perspective come from the individual, from a single eye. Page 17 has a good Vertov quote which is a part of a manifesto.
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