“When a camera is raised to the eye of a friend, a lover, or a parent, it becomes a symbol of judgment, an insight even more intense and scrutinizing than that which ordinarily characterizes such intimate relationships. Its presence transforms the people it beholds into actors, standing in sets, posing with symbolic props, the whole scene a private allegory of love, defined by the edge of an imaginary proscenium stage. Sometimes the people pictured have been well rehearsed, know their parts, and enjoy them. At other times they “forget” or improvise them, or even evade them. Often the snapshot is a picture puzzle in which everything manifest is only a fraction of what is revealed.
- Michael Lesy: Time Frames - Aperture, Summer 2010
This is one of those snapshots where you really have to wonder who is behind the camera.
