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Does "the full-scale image appearing as if for a surveillance gaze" in the following text mean "the full-scale image appears as if it is meant to be viewed by a surveillance gaze"?
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In the Gaze and Dream quadriptychs that comprise one series in the installation, the portraits of black men and women exhibit an alternative genealogy to the mirror-stage – a giving birth to oneself shaped by an inner dream of what you think you look like, rather than simply being subjected to the camera’s objective gaze. Each portrait has a small-scale version of the same image photomontaged in front of it, the full-scale image appearing as if for a surveillance gaze, the smaller insert representing what the subjects think they look like, their imagined inner life, the subtle doubling generating a minute space of resistance to the camera’s scrutiny.
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catttt Does "the full-scale image appearing as if for a surveillance gaze" in the following text mean "the full-scale image appears as if it is meant to be viewed by a surveillance gaze"? That's how I read it.
- catttt Does "the full-scale image appearing as if for a surveillance gaze" in the following text mean "the full-scale image appears as if it is meant to be viewed by a surveillance gaze"?
- That's how I read it.
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cattttDoes "the full-scale image appearing as if for a surveillance gaze" in the following text mean "the full-scale image appears as if it is meant to be viewed by a surveillance gaze"?
That's how I read it.
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