22 Jan LEO HURWITZ
THE ART OF SEEING SERIES 2: DISCOVERY IN A LANDSCAPE 1968 -1970
“I Will Look With Your Eyes, You Will See With Mine”
Seeing isn’t a simple thing. It often takes another person’s eyes to help us understand something in a new way. This is how Leo Hurwitz uses his eyes and camera in his The Art of Seeing series with its three films, Light And The City, Discovery In A Landscape, and This Island. In these films, made between 1968 and 1970 with fellow filmmaker and wife Peggy Lawson, Leo uses a form of empathic communication that he calls, “I will look with your eyes, you will see with mine.” Through this kind of seeing, Leo gives each of us a chance...