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The modern city with its multistory buildings ... have redirected ... the normal psychology of visual perception. It would seem that only the camera is capable of reflecting contemporary life.
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The quote says that tall, modern buildings have changed how people normally see and understand the world around them. The city’s unusual height, angles, and crowded structures no longer fit older habits of visual perception. It therefore presents the camera as especially suited to showing contemporary life, because photography can capture views and perspectives that ordinary human sight may not easily take in.
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