Visualizing A Photo Essay

Think about your grandparents, your graduation, your favorite vacation, or a memory that you cherish more than anything else. Now think about that without visualizing a photograph. Unless it was an extremely private moment, you had to dig past the memory of a photograph in your head in order to find a memory. That is because photographs do a great portion of our remembering for us, which is both good and bad. A photo can mean an endless amount of completely unique things to any individual. Whenever I think of a photograph, depending on what is pictured, I could have a memory of an event that took place in my life come to mind, possibly wonder about the feelings of those within the moment of the photo or even that of the person behind the camera, or, conversely, ponder the artistic nature of the photo and make an attempt at understanding the person who took it.
If the photo is of me or something I was a part of, then of course I would think of that moment and what happened around the time it was taken. That in itself is just a natural human reaction; there are times however, that I can see just any random photo and be reminded of an event in my personal past or even reminisce on an emotion I felt during a certain moment of my existence. This …show more content…
I am extremely fascinated with others and love striving to understand people, which is why I think about those individuals in pictures and want to know what they are feeling in a photo. If a photo shows someone expressing some type of emotion it is nearly a knee-jerk reaction to understand what that individual is feeling and why. People being captured in time without knowing is the most effective form of showing who they are. When someone poses for a photograph they know is being taken they can put on a completely different persona than who they really are. Professional photographers/artists are the best at capturing these naturalistic