Texts: One—Personal
Visitors studying the work of Hans van den Boogaard in the exhibition Collection Vrolik at Foam in the Netherlands. Image © Karin Bareman.
Even when photographs are not provided with accompanying text (sometimes on the gallery wall or the odd advertisement), the viewer brings experiences and beliefs with them; we fit the images into narrative contexts.
Steve Edwards
In the 1980s, photo exhibitions were text-intensive as a reaction against the formalist aesthetics of the previous era where any contextualization or captioning was excoriated. But the pendulum swung again, and today text is usually shunned in the gallery ...
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