"To interpret a photograph is to ask and answer questions such as these:
what is this object that i see?
what is it about?
what does it represent or express?
how does culture influence its construction?
what did it mean to its maker?
what is it part of?
what are its references?
what is it responding to?
why did it come to be?
how was it made?
within what tradition does it belong?
what ends did it possibly serve its maker?
what pleasures or satisfactions did it afford the person responsible for it?
the persons for whom it was made?
whom does it address? whom does it ignore?
what problems does it solve, allay, or cause?
what Prejudices and preconceptions does it reinforce of disrupt?
what needs does it mean to me?
does it affect my life?
does it change my view of the world?
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