Allow me to revise the hypothetical. I have a dream that a gorilla is holding the Mona Lisa. You have a dream that a polar bear is holding the Mona Lisa. In both of our dreams, the Mona Lisa looks just like the original. However, neither of us can photograph the Mona Lisa held by an animal as we saw it in our dreams.
I think that’s a screen capture from footage of his funeral (which is on YouTube and is entirely as strange as you would expect). After his funeral they massively renovated the palace into an enormous mausoleum, so while I suppose you can see a picture of dead Dear Leader, you can’t see a picture of his fancy new digs or his long-term embalm job.
Of course, jumping through the hoops to get into North Korea in the first place might be a little beyond what the “general public” would be willing to go through.
Go outside and glance at it, and realize no photograph ever has done it justice;
THE SUN
Milton Berle. He just took out enough to win.
Sorry, in my dream the Mona Lisa has enourmous false teeth and is trying to escape from her frame in order to bite me.
To be more serious for a moment, I don’t dream with that degree of fidelity. I have a mental representation of the Mona Lisa, plenty good enough to recognise the picture, but I couldn’t tell you what is in the background. My mental picture will differ from yours, and both will differ from reality.
MY contribution to that interesting debate: Floaters in your eye, which show up in your vision. Most people have them, but you can’t photograph them (at least not from within, to see them the way you would see them in everyday life).
Obviously, though, each person has their own floaters, so that may not count by the OP’s rules.
Fair enough but I could argue the fidelity of the Mona Lisa image in your mind is not relevant. You probably could not recall a perfectly realistic image of your mother’s face purely from memory either.
What matters is, in your mind, you saw a polar bear holding the Mona Lisa and you would not be able to produce a photograph of this event (without Photoshop or other trickery).
Anyone can go to NK as long as you pay for a guided escorted tour. It’s only journalists that have a hard time getting in. Doesn’t seem to be that expensive either, from $1000US for a 5 day tour.
Indeed, my mental image of my mother’s face isn’t much more detailed than that of the Mona Lisa. I know she has green eyes, but I can’t picture them. I couldn’t even tell you what colour my sister’s eyes are.
However, I’d argue that it is relevant. Lets take the simplest possible example, say we both look at exactly the same shade of blue. Is our mental representation of it the same? How do you know your mental blue isn’t closer to my red? I suspect the difference isn’t that radical, and also that they are not identical, but no-one has ever been able to prove this.
The sort of thing I’m talking about here are called Qualia. People experience the world quite differently, and it’s entirely possible the differention starts at a very fundamental level.
Our representations of the Mona Lisa are each different and unique. They are of the same object, but they are not the same thing. Also, they don’t exist in our minds as discrete entities, they come with a raft of associations. Do you find the picture sad? Wistful? Humourous? Cold?
Kind of a loophole, but all US government documents are available to the public because of the Freedom of Information Act of 1966. However, the only way to see what is under the redaction is to be a government employee or government official. Probably this is similar to jail correspondence.
As an intellectual exercise, I would say “anything that hasn’t been discovered yet.” For example, the only way to see a cave that nobody has discovered before would be to discover it yourself, and by definition, no possible photos could exist. Also, there’s new plant, insect and animal species discovered daily that have never been photographed until discovery, and are relatively open to the public. However, once it’s discovered, I doubt it’s impossible today to not find a picture of it.
Another possibility: court cases that are closed to the media. Usually, an audience is allowed to watch the proceedings, but photography is not allowed, which is how court artists make their money.
Oh thought of another one: there’s a number of celebrities who refuse to do nude scenes. Off the top of my head, I’m pretty sure there’s no nude photos of Emma Watson (Hermoine Granger) and Hayden Panettiere (cheerleader from Heroes.)
Yes, I agree and thought of mentioning this myself. I can’t easily tell the difference between the colors dark blue and black. People who have severe color blindness, certainly perceive the world differently.
Agreed. Our perceptions cannot be identical.
Attempting to bring this back to the OP, we can both go to the Louvre in France and see the actual Mona Lisa. We will see it a little differently even if we are looking at the same object in the same setting. We can also ignore the museum rules and snap photos of the Mona Lisa.
We can both imagine the Mona Lisa floating in outer space. Naturally our minds’ eyes will see the Mona Lisa floating in outer space somewhat differently even if we are imagining the same object in the same setting. But neither of us can photograph the Mona Lisa in outer space.
Nope. According to the OP, it “can be seen in person by an average member of the general public”, but privacy regulations only allow family members to make copies of birth certificates. (Of course, once they have a copy, they can show those copies to anyone, or even publish them online. Like has been done many times with Obama’s.)
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Since the question is so detailed, it eliminated anything I could think of and so I figured it might be a trick question but I don’t think it is. Anyway the question made me wonder what a camera can’t see that a human eye can see which I still wonder. But a camera can’t see what 2 human eyes can see, at least the perception.
So what is famous that requires two eyes, perhaps to get the full experience?
Hawaii?
There’s nothing to stop you going to the lunar surface and gawping at the lie of Alan Shepard’s golf ball.
Well, the OP didn’t say anything about the object not being extremely difficult to travel to…
Inside of an orthodox synagogue on yom kippur (or any other shabbat for that matter).
Not really. You don’t get see pictures of the PEOC, but alomost all of White House’s rooms, bathrooms included are photographed. Check out the incredibly awesome www.whitehousemuseum.org Pictures of the President’s master bath are readily available. Most of the pictures there were taken by the government and are subject to FOIA requests.
BTW There’s no toilet in the oval office. The Pres has to go out across the corridor with the rest of the Proles.
I think the answer to this is going to be a slightly obscure religious site- the sort of place that a handful of visitors may go to, but those that make it there would be respectful enough not to take camera-phone pictures. I’m sure there are plenty of inner shrines in Hindu temples and stuff like that that would qualify.
Imagining the awkward urinal conversations… 