8The Meaning of Words
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
—Joan Miro
A fellow photographer I respect and with whom I corresponded in the past wrote to say that he was not comfortable with one of my essays in which I drew a distinction between documentary photographs and fine-art photographs (his terms, not mine), both of which I believe to be overloaded and difficult terms to define in an absolute way.
A topic I routinely explore and write about is the general lack of acknowledgment of categories within the larger realm of photography. Think, for example, about writing. Readers have no problem applying completely different frameworks of appreciation and judgment to novels, essays, news reports, poems, ...
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