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Perhaps we read too much

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Starting this course and reading the book 'the photograph' has really helped my understanding of photography and its language. It has taught me the importance of being able to translate my images into words when it is required. That being said, there also a cynical side to me which thinks that perhaps we read too much into images and there supposed meaning. I am going to use this blog post to explain along with an example image. 'Cape Horn near Cello' 1867 by Carleton Watkins as seen in Graham Clarke's 'The Photograph' 1997 In the book this image is read as though it were a fantastic and deliberately well crafted photograph:              "Emptiness overwhelms the eye - the sky (which occupies a third of the photographic space) is devoid of any significant presence. It has been emptied of effect" Perhaps the author of the book is reading too much into the composition of the image. Its not that I am trying to argue that it is not a well co