Reddit reviews The Mind's Eye

A camera is a mechanical image-making device. Different types of cameras can make different kinds of images. You see in 3D, most cameras don't. Some cameras see the infrared spectrum, you don't. Is a two-dimensional photographic image of the real, 3-D world not "realistic"? Does a camera that can see part of the spectrum that you don't see more realistically than you do because it captures a larger slice of the electromagnetic spectrum than your eyes do?

Also, when we say a camera "sees" and when we say we "see", the word "see" means two different things. A camera can change light into information, but it has no intelligence to work on that information. Your brain, refined over billions of years of evolution, is constantly working on the raw stimulus that is coming in through your eyes and helping you to understand it. Oliver Sacks writes about some of this complicated wiring in an entertaining way.

Catherine Murphy is an artist who works in a highly realistic style which doesn't look like photography. She doesn't use photographs in her studio practice. She says that there is simply too much that the eye sees that cameras don't.