LL 1- The Thing Itself

The subject in the photograph tells a story, and has more in depth life to it. The photograph itself its just like any other photograph, it just shows a image. A photographer can make the subject in the photograph mean something, and ever one else attaches that story to it. While the real thing anybody can interpret it differently. For example, in the passage, The Thing Itself, it says, “The subject and the picture were not the same thing, although they would afterwards seem so. It was the photographer’s problem to see not simply the reality before him but the still invisible picture, and to make his choices in term of the latter.” The photograph is more important then the thing itself because it captures the moment and lives on, but the real thing itself does not last.