HOLDING THE CAMERA / Alberto Vieceli Seth Siegelaub Sophia Cai

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HOLDING THE CAMERA / Alberto Vieceli Seth Siegelaub Sophia Cai19101980300 How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes one eyed into the world. How one hides it in stockings, behind the back, and how one lets it peep out from behind the corner of a building, as though it were a detective. Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analogue photography. Like the dinosaurs, supposedly the victims of a violent