Sciagraphy

Some sitters reported that they felt drawn to the camera's eye, or unnerved by the experience of being photographed, as if they were being scrutinized, or compelled to act like a marionette... as though they are in, what was termed, a "Magnetic Sleep."

Nathan Lewis, The Medium, 2007

[Photographic] portraits have special powers, extending human sight into insight and revealing what ordinary vision cannot bring into focus...

Nathan Lewis, Basement Window, 2007

Belief in the extraordinary power of photography...was mixed with wariness...

- Mary Warner Marien, 2006