Tunelové vidění / Tunnel Vision

The central theme of the publication is seeing and perceiving the world and the limits that restrict our perception. How much do we need to know what we see in order to truly see it? How much do we need to imagine what we see, and how certain can we be of what we see and what we know? The visual part of the book Tunnel Vision consists of photographs, photograms, and daguerreotypes by Ondřej Přibyl and is divided into three chapters (Mechanical Viewer, Tunnel Vision, and Models and Constants), supplemented by quotations and the author's comments. The authors of the text section are Petr Vaňous and Pavel Dvořák, who also contributed to the concept of the entire publication. The book includes an interview with Ondřej Přibyl by Karel Haloun, and instead of an afterword, there is a text by Kamil Nábělek. The title of the publication refers not only to the diagnosis, when the affected person loses peripheral vision for various reasons and is only able to focus on partial phenomena, but above all it is a metaphor through which the author attempts to name the fact that our perception is always limited to a mere slice of space and time, to the fact that it is not possible to see the world as a whole and all at once. And it is precisely photography, with its automatic birth, inevitable causality, and temporality, that Přibyl considers an extremely suitable tool for illustrating these reflections.