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READI NG
EXERCISE
The fraction of knowledge gained in the texture concept
can be applied to reading a photograph. We can not read all that
there is to know in the following photograph, though it has been
selected because most of its significance centers around the interpley
of its textures.
The reader mi ght like to try his ski1l on this
photograph before looking at what the writer has to say.
The pepper has a "moist" feeling, it is smooth, shiny and
B0 it is both an opitaal and a tactile texture at the same time.
The
emotions set up are contrasted or played against the "dry" texture of
the straw flowers.
The latter are rough, mainly tactile. The picture
is a kind of two-part song, the textures of the pepper are a theme of
smoothness, the textures of the flowere are a very different theme.
