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István Bányai in his book Zoom offers a rejoinder to all these precedents, depicting a series of images in which every view recedes from a prior view, even as our frames of reference collapse into each other: for example, we see that as the “zoom” proceeds from its initial vantage of a chicken being observed by children in a house, the expanding viewpoint shows this farmyard to be a model scene of toys depicted on the cover of a magazine held in the hand of a boy asleep on the deck of a cruise vessel, now depicted in an ad on the side of a bus, as seen upon the television of a desert cowboy, whose image appears upon the postage for a letter, which is received by a tribesman on a remote island, overflown by an aviator, whose airplane vanishes into the distance as our viewpoint recedes further into outer space, leaving our planet behind, like a full stop.¹²