5/10/2023 0 Comments In no great hurry![]() He is among the most influential visual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Now, what has this to do with Saul Leiter? ![]() A hand is a hand is a hand, or something like a hand, and so forth. The purpose of so much storage is, in part, in aid of preventing the very busy brain from having to do all that sorting and interpreting each and every time we see… say, a human hand: because our brains have filed away an incalculable number of visual cues that we define as “hand,” to know the tip of one finger is to know the rest of the assumed whole, no matter in what size, shape, color, or permutation. This morgue of literally countless images-and more important, bits of images-from every conceivable axial point of reference serves as a vocabulary. ![]() ![]() Every single bit of visual stimulus that comes to the human brain via the visual cortex must be interpreted, learned, and filed away for future reference. ![]()
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