Photographs and Contexts

Reading from Terry Barrett:



I find it very interesting that when you look at a photograph already surrounded by text, it automatically tells you what you should think about the photograph. But I have never thought about looking at different photographs in several different contexts, it is so true that a picture is worth a thousand words, and each of those words can make the picture tell a completely different story.

It makes me laugh because what the photographer was most likely trying to portray with the photograph is not at all what the audience will view it as, and if the photographer told their point of view on the picture, I am almost certain that no one else would have thought that was what they were trying to get across to their viewer.

This reading made me realize how important text can actually be when presenting a photograph. If you want to get your ideas across how you originally thought of them, it is probably a  very smart thing to incorporate text somehow in the presentation.