All photos seem to say: "this area, and now thinking up what lies beneath it." They can not explain anything to us. You may recall something more than what we already know, or acknowledge - for example, a signature. The same photo, however, is a mystery, and basically a load of our experiences and sensitivity determines what we find in addition to the top layer of the photograph. Photos there are only subjective, processed, distorted image of reality, and must refer to our experience, get something to convey. So does work well as a carrier of truth? Or do you hide it only under a nice, matte or glossy object, which hang on the wall and admire?
photo - mystery - may be only (or until) a stimulus, an incentive to delve deeper, consider and solve the riddle, which is the same. Pushes us to our curiosity. The mystery may be limited only to - "why exactly cameraman took the photo and what he wanted to say," but it can also be far more complex and complicated. Solution always exists, although it is sometimes not available to us - then you can just let the imagination wander. The accompanying text images, or signature can provide a little information - perhaps as much as needed to get to the essence of things, and maybe enough to become only the picture shown.
However, instead of forcing us to think photos can confirm our misconception about the world. As Susan Sontag writes, many Americans in the photographs of citizens of Japanese descent in 1942 led to the internment camps, only twenty years after the later of the U.S. government has recognized the crime. Pictures often to ask for it to consider them only in aesthetic terms. When we take photographs only as a beautiful object, we stop asking questions.
But regardless of what really see beneath the surface, it is always some part of the truth about ourselves.
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