They all promoted the photograph as a means of artistic expression rather than as a mere record of actuality, as in the scientific approach.
The video provides the show with a dynamic background, but it also neatly symbolizes the self-consciousness of Sontag's writing process: even as she confides her most intimate secrets to the page, she observes herself doing so, aware that the journal is more than a mere record of experience, but a tool she is consciously employing to shape it.
A mere recording of thousands of facts about the past century would be antiquarianism.
We should not be distracted by a mere record, though.
If we accept this understanding of the privilege, the question then becomes whether the mere record of thoughts and memories -without any coerced oral testimony or declaration- is evidence that can be legally compelled, or whether this practice necessarily requires the 'will of the suspect' and therefore constitutes a breach of the privilege against forced self-incrimination.
Like everyone else, his money is on his countryman but he can see it beyond the terms of a mere record-shattering sporting event.
We have no good reason to think that in writing this work Plato adopted the role of a mere recording device, or something close to it (changing a word here and there, but for the most part simply recalling what he heard Socrates say, as he made his way to court).
Once mere "records" of musical events, recordings were now something much more exotic and autonomous, painstakingly layered confections.
At the same time, constructing a script like a libretto, Renoir was able to make images that were both neutral in their sense of mere recording, of moderated inflections, and yet freed, like music, from storytelling in the interest of subtly expressive elaboration.
Great books are mere records of such inspiration, and their value derives only, Emerson holds, from their role in inspiring or recording such states of the soul.
McBride turns Holzman into something of a cinematic tummler, an anything-for-a-response comedian with a camera who is seeking to break through the conventions of mere recording in quest of a jolt of revelation.
