Wednesday
Oct112006
ku # 413


Simplify, simplify, the advice so often given as bible to photographers-in-gestation, seems to imply that most observers of photographic prints are inherently, well, simple-minded - that in order for a photograph to be understood and applauded, the photographer must pander to the lowest common visual denominator using only the easiest to read "words" in the visual vocabulary (most commonly refered to as the "rules").
Ignoring the rules - in this case, "simply" - often leads to the criticism that a photographer is ignoring the rule "just to be different" for attention-getting sake. Complexity, of the denoted and connoted kind, is apparently too much to be endured.