ABSTRACT

To regard the camera eye as an organ means to view the human body and visual apparatus of the camera in a functional alignment. We can approach this process of organ formation by examining the (new) forms of meaningful behavior or gestures this arrangement creates. Or, we may approach the process by identifying the organized character or figure that emerges from this behavior. The camera eye comes to denote both process and product, a way of seeing and the ‘viewer’ or viewing organism this way of seeing creates.