what is a photograph ? # 1-5 ~ framing an answer

What is a photograph ? ~ # 1 • click to embiggen
What is a photograph ? ~ # 2 • click to embiggen
What is a photograph ? ~ # 3 • click to embiggen
What is a photograph ? ~ # 4 • click to embiggen
What is a photograph ? ~ # 5 • click to embiggenIn an entry last week I wrote about the possibility of starting a new body of work / series from scratch. At that time the idea of a what is a photograph? series had never entered my thought box.

Now, approximately 7 days later, I find myself 14 final(ish) constructed images into a series by that very name. And while it's true that, for the past decade or so, I have been thinking, ruminating, contemplating, reading, writing and otherwise obsessing on the very notion of what is a photograph?, the fact of the matter is that I never thought of framing (gotcha, Jimmi Nuffin) the answer or, more accurately, my thoughts on the question in the form of a picture.