To read a photograph, we want to consider what we can see:
- what it depicts
- time/era it was taken
- location/setting
- season/time of day
- photograph/image quality
- message the picture is telling
- kind of photograph/technique
- symbols that might be in the photograph
- landmarks/attractions
- facial expressions
- body language
- what’s in the background
- gender
- race
- socioeconomic class
- quality of life
- age
- event/holiday/occasion
- relationship between/among people depicted, or people and their surroundings
- colors
- shading
- textures
- focus
- clothing
- mood
- camera and other equipment
- recreation or original
- context clues, eg, technology
- language/words included
- photographer
- is it posed or candid?
make inferences
message or meaning
what story does it tell?
how do we know details such as time/place?
we don’t want to jump to conclusions
can we summarize it?
