Anodyne
Sunday, November 13, 2005
 
On Titles

I taught myself to read aged four or thereabouts. Lots of laughter about the ferociously intent little kid who'd spell and pronounce words in all kinds of weird ways. After a while, context worked its magic, and the spellings and mispronunciations disappeared.

Photography is a grammar, just like language. (I suppose photography is actually a subset of a larger grammar called "Western pictorial art," but I'll stick with photography for now). The Untitleds are proper nouns: people, places, things. You could call them designatory pictures; they signify by pointing, like an extended finger. This latte, those raindrops, that sky.
- posted by cjb @ 10:26 AM


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