ABSTRACT
This chapter is a three-part essay about three distinct but overlapping activities: looking, seeing and experiencing. Photography plays a significant role in all three as they have evolved in modernity, a prosthetic for these fundamental human capacities. But the photograph is not just party to these individual physiological/psychological functions; it can also serve to construe or codify visual experience in a way that fixes it for circulation and communication between individuals. The photograph thus opens onto a larger audience for a single vision, mediating between an individual/private and multiple/public context.
