Week 3 - Ways of Seeing (Reading)

This week reading was really interesting and in relation with the one from a week ago "How to read a photograph"

When you see fire, what do you think of?

"Seeing comes before the words. A child looks and recognise before it can speak."
 - None of us have think of this before. How important is the representation of things. The meaning of all the actions. And that everything has a meaning behind. The clothes, the eyes, the look, the curves on our face and the way we hold our hands.

This reading spoke about how pictures took the place of Paintings, and how art became more normal in our lives. It's funny thou, as it became normal to have The Starry Night hanging on your wall, while the original one costs a fortune.

Anyway, the idea is that Photography came as a revolution.

Another important thing that was highlighted in the reading is that the ways of seeing a picture are always different. We can't look at a picture from 1800 and think the same thing about it as someone from 1900. Our perspectives of things change over the years.

In my opinion, a photography is a piece from a big puzzle.

That's for today. Thank you for reading.