The difference between the thing that is shown in a photograph or the subject of the photograph and the photograph is there is more tho the photograph than it may seem. The photographer knows what is actually going on in the situation when he takes that picture. When you look at the picture you see the subject. But what you fail to realize is, you see what the photographer want you to see. He/she takes the photo in the perspective he/she wants, or how he/she sees the situation. However their is actually more to what you see in that photo. According to this short text, the photograph might be more important than the thing itself, because of the way how he/she shows the world what is happening with the photos he/she takes.
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Another way to state the difference between the thing itself and the photograph of it is that the photographer has a point of view. The author John Szarkowski expresses this here: “Much of the reality was filtered out in the static little black and white image, and some of it was exhibited with an unnatural clarity, an exaggerated importance.” Of course, he was writing in an era when black and white photos were the norm but the idea still pertains.