Abstract
“Arrested Vision” looks at how photographs and buildings mediate visual relationships among people, offering framed bits of life and chance encounters. Referring to what Roland Barthes called “the sexuality of sight,” the author observes how the gaze migrates and, when arrested, sustains tension. Photographs such as those of Diane Arbus invite us to look at something that fascinates, however briefly, and in so doing, they reveal our own obsessions to us. Urbach compares this experience to looking out of his apartment window, glancing into the apartments and lives of others with disinterest until his attention is captured, then released again.
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