Language of Looking

Please scroll to the bottom for the unseen portrait of the week. 

 There are many ways to describe the ways that people look at each other and the world.  We peek, stare, glance, gaze, gape, glare, and peer.  We also examine, contemplate, squint, and observe.

 

 

Jodhpur, India

 

 

 

Yangon, Myanmar/Burma

 

 

Berlin, Germany

 

 

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. 
 - Henry David Thoreau 

 

 

Croatia

 

 

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

 

 Afghanistan

 

 

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

 

Thirumullaivayil, India

 

 

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily
symbol of identity. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

 

Train to Peshawar, Pakistan

 

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

 

 Paraguay

 

 

Barkhor Quarter, Lhasa, Tibet

 

 

It’s the way to educate your eyes.  Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.  Die knowing something.  You are not here long.
 - Walker Evans  

 

 

Reina Sofia, National Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain

 

 

If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it for the 1000th time,
you are in danger of seeing it for the first time.
-  G. K. Chesterton 

 

 

Jaipur, India

 

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn’t need to.
If the thing is there, why, there it is.
- Walker Evans

 

 

A man examines photographs of victims of the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 prison camp, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

 

 Unseen Portrait of the WeekBaluchistan, Pakistan