What's mentioned there is the use of the Camera Eye as a filter through which Vertov views the busy (maddeningly busy) Soviet world. But is there a sense in which this world is changed when it enters the lens?
I'm already convinced that photography is effectively (and will always be) a lie. There are way too many variables to suppose that any photograph actively and accurately portrays the WHOLE TRUTH. What I'm talking about here is different.
Perhaps the role of the camera is actually to transmogrify.
Is the world actually changed and redrawn once it's been shown as a photo or film? Maybe. There are architects that won't build because it's impure. The world as is is a very tenable and fragile thing.
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