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The purpose of this article is to explore how an image is viewed through an aperture with a restricted field of vision. The cases under study suggest that the modernity of the procedure is gender determined. The specimens from Jean-Paul Sartre and Marcel Proust are clearly differentiated from those by France Huser and Sylvie Germain. Taking John Langshaw Austin's dictum, that saying is doing, a step further, these visual writings demonstrate that seeing also is doing - that vision as well as language is an act productive of signification. The importance of the "visual speech act" is then traced in the cases under study.