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Visual Glossary: Observer 
Introduction
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By focusing upon the playful qualities of camera phone practices, we can begin to understand places as sites for ambient meandering and co-presence (Hjorth 336)
Positivist view: what you see is what you get BUT only when you stop and question, that you will finally see things as what they are, yet this is also under the presupposition that the Creator is telling the truth
perhaps collective force of the creator of the image, angle of the smartphone devices and the image itself shape the narrative, not as innocent as we think they are
Robust definition
nominally a free sovereign individual but who is also a privatized isolated subject enclosed in a quasi-domestic space separated from a public exterior world (Crary 33)
The subjective vision that endowed the observer with a new perceptual autonomy and productivity was simultaneously the result of the observer having been made into a subject of new knowledge of new techniques of power (Crary 35)
[case to debunk - with so-called technological advances...] by the 1820s, then, we effectively have a model of autonomous vision (Crary 35)
The observer is simultaneously the object of knowledge and the object of procedures of stimulation and normalization, which have the essential capacity to produce experience fro the subject (Crary 41)
CA: yes stimulation and normalization, yet not necessarily all-knowing - does not know this is an image of an image until further notice by photographer herself
Critical Reflection
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Context/Description
On one of the hottest days ever recorded in the history of Amsterdam winters, I, as an observer, proceeded to take my smartphone out to capture an image of the blue, blue skies. I looked up...
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Conclusion
strive for authenticity - the only prerequisite organ for vision is unreliable, cannot surpass the hegemonic grasp of the digital apparatus (smartphone camera) "that continues to define and regulate the status of an observer" (Crary 30)
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It is for the creator of the image to know, and the observer to never find out.
image "as an apparently autonomous source of its own purposes and meanings on the other" (Mitchell 175)
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Works Cited
Crary, Jonathan. “Modernizing Vision.” Vision and Visuality, edited by Hal Foster, Bay Press, 1988, pp. 29-44.
Mitchell, W.J.T. "Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture." Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, pp. 165-181.
Hjorth, Larissa. "Visualizing Play: A Case Study of a Camera Phone Game for Playful Re-Imaginings of Place." Television and New Media, vol. 18, no. 4, 2016, pp. 336-350.