{"product_id":"9781917651264-the-devouring-eye-photography-and-the-mouth","title":"The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative essay, academic Olivier Richon invites a reconsideration of how we relate to images, rethinking the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during his twenty-five-year tenure as Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art (1997–2022) – a period during which the course shaped an entire generation of photographers – the book presents a meditation on the camera as both eye and mouth: an apparatus that ingests the world in order to produce images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Framed through a psychoanalytic lens, Richon proposes that photography is less a neutral act of observation than a form of visual incorporation. If looking maintains distance, the mouth abolishes it. The camera becomes a devouring organ, where the object is dissolved, digested, and made into an image. The desire to see becomes entangled with the desire to consume. Through this reading, photography is revealed as an insatiable medium – one that satisfies and frustrates our appetite for representation in equal measure. \u003ci\u003eThe Devouring Eye\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to reconsider how we relate to images, and how deeply they live in us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56657393647990,"sku":"9781917651264","price":17.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39492811.jpg?v=1768482425","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781917651264-the-devouring-eye-photography-and-the-mouth","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}