The Act of Photographing
Dream #2 (c) D Harris A photograph is essentially an object, an object on a wall, in your hand, on a page, or on your screen. It is two dimensional. It is usually rectangular, or, if the photograph is square in format, it is usually on a rectangular page or screen. The two-dimensional physicality of a photograph is important because it is the end product. It is the message. The actual act of photographing is entirely different. It is the means of communicating, the medium through which communication takes place. Or is it? Immediately several questions remain. Is there a message? Who are we trying to communicate to? These are fundamentally important questions, not as rhetorical ones, but as the bones and marrow of photography as an art. A photographer is a person or self, and for a self to find value, meaning, then there must be value in meaning, in why one does somethin