Fixing the Shadows

André Kertész

Sarah Bernhardt,1860 - Nadar

           One of the most intriguing points of photography is how much an image can say. While looking at this picture above I wonder who these people are, which stories they have to tell and what they were doing. Photos have an uncountable amount of details that describe and say so much about what is portrait, however, at the same time, these details don’t give us any certainty if what actually we consider right is the truth. It leads to a several numbers of interpretations.  Letting the door open to our imagination to decide what is real or not. That’s why photography is so unique. Photography will always transform the subject that is being depicted on the image.  That’s all what the art of photography is about: to control these transformations. Photography has the power to make a random point of view becomes special. When you put something within a frame you are narrowing down someone’s view. You are transferring your perspective on a subject to a second person.