e believes that what happened around the time of the photograph is a necessity to know in order to read the photo properly and thoroughly. Now, read the paragraph on page three . . . Having read the paragraph, what do you see in the photograph now? Is the photograph any different to you now that you know what happened arround the time it was taken?John Berger says that there are two ways to use a photograph, private use or public use. In using a photograph privately, the moment when the photo was taken lives in an ongoing continuity. For example, if you have a picture of a person or place you would most likely not forget what that person or place meant to you or made you feel. When a photograph is used publicly, the photo becomes a dead object because of the many interpretations people make of it. By hearing these interpretations you forget what the photograph means to you or how it made you feel. For humans, photographs are memories, weather or not they are good memories is in the eye of the beholder. Photographs document what happened on a certain date or time. The definition of what a photograph is varies from person to person. What do you think a photograph is? What do photographs mean to you?...
