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Title: Reading a Photograph


1
Reading a Photograph
  • Photographs are
  • Visual evidence
  • Primary sources

2
What is happening in the picture?
  • Who?
  • Where?
  • When?
  • How?
  • Why?

3
John Szarkowski
  • Five Elements of
  • Photographic Vision

4
Photograph is the THING ITSELF
  • Subject and picture are different things
  • Image survived the subject and becomes the reality

5
Frame defines the content
  • Photos can create a
  • relationship between
  • people and or objects
  • where none had existed
  • before

6
TIME
  • Photo can only capture a
  • fragment of time.
  • Every subject has a only
  • a tenuous connection
  • with the next moment in
  • time.

7
Detail
  • Photos do not tell the
  • whole story they can
  • only document a fragment
  • of what exists
  • Photo becomes symbolic
  • of the whole

8
Vantage Point
  • Photographer selects the
  • perspective or viewpoint
  • (top/bottom front/rear)
  • No two perspectives of a
  • subject are ever the same
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