At 8:48 -0800 3/7/04, Marilyn wrote:
I think it would be easier to critique the gallery's photographs if a little more information was given with the images.
Some do have information, and I appreciate that. Others don't have any comments, such as what the photographer's object of taking that particular photo was, or if it was just an impulse shot.
It could just be me, but I'd like to see comments from the photographers.
I, too, find I get
more out of viewing a photo when there is at least some information
relative to the making of it present. Certainly there are photos which
can stand alone but some insight into the circumstances around the
making of the shot enhance the experience for me. A nature
photographer I admire a lot, Heather Angel, said in her
book"Photographing The Natural World" that she felt
cheated whenever she looked at other people's pictures if there was no
clue to at least the location and the month the picture was taken. She
also feels it important to provide the camera, lens and film used but
not the exposure since the chances of anyone being in the same place
with the same lighting is pretty remote. I agree with her and if the
photographer wishes to add how they felt when making the picture or
any other insightful information, so much the better. A photograph
standing alone is a fact. But, as William R. Inge, Dean of St. Pauls,
London, observed "The aim of education is the knowledge not of
fact, but of values."
Jim
Baja Oregon
