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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 Week
Baluchistan, Pakistan
