"A Viewer's guide to looking at Photography" reflection

This article presented many important steps in helping the view understand a photograph fully. Coming to a greater understanding of photographs was the main focus. Many have probably used some of the techniques talked about within this article when evaluating paintings, but not as often with photographs. We often tend to subconsciously think that photographs need less evaluating because they are an exact capture of time and space, unlike paintings which often depict scenes in an abstract way.

The article talks about how most views start at the stage of evaluation, which actually comes last. All factors and situations must be considered when viewing and understanding a photograph.

This article is relevant to this project because of our goal to map time and/or space in a coherent and interesting way, while still trying to make sense of a situation.