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the world, flattened, frozen, and handed to you without the smell.
means a visual representation of something, standing in for the real thing so eyes can do what memory or presence can't.
from from latin imago, meaning likeness or portrait, originally tied to ancestral death masks romans kept to remember faces after they rotted.
first photographtook eight hours of exposure in 1826.
human biasbrain devotes more cortex to vision than any other sense.
daily scrollaverage person sees thousands of images before lunch.