I cannot see seeing with my eyes; I can see – but I cannot see seeing. So what I do is pretend the world is a photograph – and now I can effectively see seeing! If a photograph, or, in the actual absence of such a thing, if thinking through photographs, allows seeing seeing, then the apparatus which is specifically designed and utilised to give origin and to propagate that which we believe allows seeing seeing, namely the thing we call the photograph, must be subject to the same laws as those governing the human eye, which, generally speaking, are the laws of optics. Hence why it happened that this, this ability to infer seeing from seeing, even if merely in the mind, could have only come about with the advent of that which we call photography (and God only knows when that actually happened). But to then deduce from this that what the photograph essentially shows us is the world is merely an error of logical typing.
The photography apparatus must name that which the photographer sees.
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Göteborgs konstmuseum (Gothenburg Museum of Art). Photo: Hossein Sehatlou, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons