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Ever find yourself in a museum? Like staring at some masterpiece and you kind of think, am I missing something here? Totally, totally. Happens to the best of us, right? Yeah. Like, is it the art itself or, you know, there's something else going on, how you're supposed to see it. That's what we're diving into today. This whole idea of how we see art.

And, you know, we've got a great guide for this little journey. John Berger, specifically his book Ways of Seeing Classic for a reason. So, Berger, he blew people's minds back in the 70s. Yeah, totally revolutionized how we think about image is like one of his big things is perspective. Perspective. Like just seeing things from a certain point of view.


Isn't that obvious? Well, it is now, but Berger pointed out that even that like the way we see depth on a flat canvas that was revolutionary back in the Renaissance, those painters figured out how to create that illusion. But here's the thing. Go on. It wasn't just a cool technique. It was deeply, deeply connected to power. Whoa. Okay.

Hold on. Power. How does perspective equal power? Think about it. That single perspective where you, the viewer, are positioned as the center of the world. It kind of reinforces this idea that there's only one right way to see things. And guess what? That right way usually lined up perfectly with whoever was in charge at the time. Okay, I think I see what you mean.

So for centuries, it's all about this fixed viewpoint. This is the way to see the world. And then bam, photography comes along, right? Like game over. Suddenly you've got a million different ways to capture the same thing, the same person, whatever. It's so true. Like a king who used to be stuck in those, like superposed royal portraits. Now he's caught off guard, laughing, sleeping.


Who knows? Exactly. Berger argued that this was huge because it shattered that single authoritative view. Like you can't control your image anymore. It becomes more human, more relatable, way more real for sure. And the research talks about how this wasn't just about photography either, like even TV, right? Totally moving pictures, constantly shifting angles were swimming in different perspectives all the time.