The Politics of Looking by Matt Bowman Notes

    - Philosophical matters need to be dealt with

-   - Immanuel Kant 1781 critique of pure reason

-   - Duck/rabbit picture – cant see at the same time, mentally switch

-   - Jasper Johns – white flag

-   - Cultural seeing

-   - James Turrell – Afrum I, looks like a cube but actually just       light.

-   - Illusions

-   - At 6 months old a child will recognise their mirrors reflection as themselves. The baby identifies with its reflection and will begin to develop its selfhood – self identity, what makes things you

-   - Capturing gazes

-   - Alfred Hitchcock’s poster for Rear Window – lady in the window, barely in the movie

-   - Psycho – The Bates. Peep hole. When she’s murdered – see her still open eye, we see the eye but the eye no longer sees.

-   - Sherman’s photographs are portraits of the self as it emerges in the field of the other - in types presented in the media as women. In her work we see that to express a self is largely to replicate a model – Hal foster the expressive fallacy.

-   - Photos taken as if someone is looking at her

-   - Your gaze hits the side of my face 1982

-   - Execution of Robert-Francois Damiens

-   - Panopticon prison – sense of being watch would change how we act fundamentally

-   - More than ever are we being watched – internet and cameras

-   - In 2015 there is 1 camera to every 11 people