Slide Show: Secret Lives of the Serengeti

If the GoPro camera is first-person singular—Here I am, BASE jumping from the top of New York City’s Freedom Tower, at night, while it’s still under construction, and getting arrested when I land on the West Side Highway—the camera trap is third-person plural. It removes the observer from the observation. You set it up and walk away, for days or weeks at a time. In your absence, triggered by a combination of heat and motion, it photographs whatever appears in front of it.

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