the first place

‘To me, photography is an art of observation…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.’– elliot erwitt

An Active Perception

The perceiver is not seen as a passive and in-
different organism but rather as one who actively
selects information, forms perceptual hypotheses,
and on occasion distorts the input in the service of
reducing surprise and of attaining valued objects. Jerome Bruner