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Checking responses among friende and students, some ere
remi nded of a flower. some of a head, Bome a hend in armor; and for
the lower figure a bird, or nothing at all.
Your own mey be totally
different.
Can you identify the originel object? If you can not, and
if the photograph suggests omething, then, where does the suggestion
come from?
Where else but from the physi cal, two dimeneional piece
of paper with tonal variations on it. It then, is the "s ource" of
experience. The photograph ie the original object that evokes the
response. Even if the reader experienced nothing but a tentalizi ng,
uns atisfied curiosity about the thing the camera recorded.
Another illustration follows:
In thie picture we may beúncertein where the response
originates, whether in the photograph or in the object; whether we
