Photography is commonly seen as a still photograph, capturing a moment in time, and sometimes edited in a way where they are taken at two different moments in time. Many people see photographs and try to depict the meaning by just the look of it, when they commonly miss interpret the intention or context behind the image. This opens a whole new world of understanding, how it is viewed, and the incredible details you can see in the image after understanding just the context of the image.
This then brings emotion to the photograph, and almost a message or even a paragraph in one image, as it is a way of connecting people thought their own interpretation and the true meaning of the image. This interpretation varies thought everyone, with a common theme of connection to the image with an experience they have once had with their life, people use images unconsciously to bring back an amazing memory. For example, looking at an amazing image of a sunset might bring the person back to a time in their life when they experienced a sun set, and the beauty behind that exact moment in time.
Photography not only allows individual reflection but to remind us the importance of the present moment. Photography is also used in a way to capture the beauty of the life around us, in order to capture moments, which others might not be able to see as a way of showing the good or even bad in things, people, looks etc. Many people have used the equipment of photography to create beautiful pictures with unique settings to capture a special moment. With a more important part of capturing the image is editing the image, which can create a whole new look, meaning and vibrancy of the image.
Within photography it isn’t about having the best of the best equipment, it can even be taking a picture with your phone, it will still have a close enough look and meaning you want it to have. Its incredible the amount of picture you see in every-day life without even acknowledging it, yet within each picture is a setting, meaning, and look.
“Photographs confuse as much as fascinate, conceal as much as reveal, distract as much as compel. They are unpredictable communicators”.
This was a quote from David Campany expressing his thoughts on photography. In my opinion I believe he is trying to express how amazing photography really is. He is trying to show people that photography isn’t just good-looking images, rather how incredibly universal they are. In a way that anyone in the world who has eyes that can see, can interpret any image in any way possible, he is probably trying to express the infinite views photographs can be seen from, how there are not limits to photography as how people view them.