Subtext

VI Introduction

For Whom This Book Is Meant and How to Use It

 

 

 

From its inception, photography has mirrored our experiences, reflected and contradicted our opinions, inflamed our passions, and otherwise informed and misled us with its uniquely subjective objectivity.

It is not uncommon to have a strong emotional response to an image, to feel a connection to it, but it is not always easy to say why or how that connection came about. In fact, the more intensely we are drawn to or repulsed by an image, the more difficult it can be to say why. Yet, studio artists are expected to speak in eloquent and informed ways about images—both those of their peers and their own.

This book invites and encourages personal and blatantly subjective responses ...