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The Nature
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By Stephen Shore
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Tn The Nature of Photographs, Stephen

Shore explores ways of understanding
and ] ooking at all types of photographs -
from iconic images to found pictures,
negatives to digital fí ] es. Based on Shorers
many years of teaching photography at
Bard College, New York State, this book
serves as an indispensable tool for
students, teachers and everyone who
wants to take better pictures or learn
to ] _ook at them in a more informed wav.

As we] l as a selection of shorers own

work, The } trature of Photographs contains
images from throughout the history of
photograph;r, from works by the fathers
of photography such as Alfred Stieglitz
and walker Evans to that of artists
working with the medium today such
as Co] lier Schorr and Thomas Struth.
rt covers a range of genres, such as
street photography, fine art photography
and documentary photography, as well
as images by unknown photographers,
be they in the form of an old snapshot
or an aerial photograph taken as part
of a geographical survey. Together with
his clear, intelligent and accessible text,
shore uses these works to demonstrate
how the world in front of the camera
is transformed into a photograph.

Jacket iL} ustration:

Kenneth Josephson
New york state
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The Nature
of Photographs
By Stephen Shore
Contents

7 The Nature of Photographs

!.5 The Physical Level

37 The Depictive Level

97 The Mental Level

!.17 MenLal Modell ing

| .34 Picture Credi] :s

!,35 I ndex of Arlists
L36 AcknowLedgements
Robert Frank
View from Hotel Window
- Bulte, Montana
L954-56

ó The Nature of Photographs

The Nature
of Photographs
How is this photograph different
from the actua] scene that Robert Frank
saw"as he stood in his Butte hotel room
and looked out on this depressed mining
town in the northern Rockies? How
much of this image is a product of
1enses, shutters, and media?'M/ hat
are the characteristics of photography
that establish how an image looks?

The Nature of Phoiographs 7

 This book explores v/ ays of understanding John Gossage
the nature of photographs; that is, how Romance I ndustry # 175
photographs function; and not only the !,99B
most elegant or gracefu1 photographs,
but all photographs made with a camera
and printed directly from the negative
or a digital file. A1} photographic prints
have qualities in common. These qualities
determine how the world in front of the
camera is transformed into a photograph;
they also form the visua] grammar that
elucidates the photograph's meaning.

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A photograph can be viewed on several Dieter AppeLt
] evels. To begin with, it is a physical The Mark on the Mirror
object, a print. 0n this print is an Thal Breathin8 Makes
image, an illusion of a window on to the !,97 7

world. Tt is on this level that we usually

read a picture and discover its content:
a souvenir of an exotic land, the face of
a lover, a wet rock, a landscape at night.
Embedded in this level is another that
contains signals to our mind's perceptual
apparatus. Tt gives (spin'to what the
image depicts and how it is organized.

tO The Nature of Photographs

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The Nature of Photograpns l rt

 The aim of this book then is
not to explore
photographic content, but to Walker Evans
describe
physical and formal attributes of Fami] y Snapshots í n
a.
photographic print that form
the tools a
photographer uses to define and Hale Coun:iJa A] abama
interpret L936
that content.

12 l The Nature of Photographs

The Na] :ure of Photographs 13
Anonymous
Ca"r by roadside
Date unknown

t4 The Physica} Level

The
Physica1
Leve]
A photographic print is, in most
instances, a base of paper, plastic,
or metal that has been coated with
an emu] sion of light-sensitive metallic
salts or meta] lic salts coupled with
vegetable or metal] ic dyes. Tn some
prints, the base is coated directly
with or imprinted with dyes, pigments,
or carbon. A photograph is flat, it has
edges, and it is static; it doesnrt move.
'V/ hile
it is flat, it is not a true plane.
The print has a physical dimension.

The Physica,1 Level | 15

 vsical and chemical attributes
Th ese nh Stephen Shore

form the boundaries that circumscribe Luzzara, I taly, !-993

the nature of the photograph. These

atrribules impress lh emselves upon
the photographic image. The physical
qualities of the print determine some
of the visual qualities of the image.
The flatness of the photographic paper
establishes the plane of the picture.
The edges of the print demand the
boundedness of the pí cture. The staticness
of the image determines the experience
of time in the photograph. Even the
image of a photograph on a computer
monitor is flat, static, and bounded.
The type of black and-white emulsion
determines the hue and tonal range
of the print. The type of base determines
the texture of the print.

L6 ] The Physical Level

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The PhysicaL Leve1 | t7

Co] our expands a photographrs palette Anne Turyn
and adds a ne\ M level of descriptive !,2ct7cL96a
information and transparenc.y to the From
image. Tt is more transparent because (FLashbu] b \ 4emories'
one is stopped less by the surface
- colour L9B6
is more ] ike how we see. I t has added
description because it shows the colour
of light and the colours of a culture or an
age. While made in the 19BOs, the palette
of this image by Anne Turyn seems to
date the picture a generation earlier.

1B The Physica1 LeveL

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The Physical Level l9

 Slephen Shore
Room 2B, Holiday Tnn
Medicine Hat. Alberta
August 18, 1974

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Mclean, Virginia,
December { 97B

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The Physical Level | 21

Stephen Shore
Amarillo. Texas

22 The Physical LeveL

Thomas Demand
Sink/ Spů le
!,997

The PhysicaL Level 23

The tonal range of a black and-white Richard Benson
print is affected by the type of emulsion Untitled
the print is made with. The composition Date unknown
of the film emulsion, the chernistry
of the film and print developers,
and the nature of the right source from
which the print was rnade also determine
the way shadows, mid tones, and
highrights are described by the print;
they determine how many shades of
grey the print contains and whether
these tones are compressed or separated.

This reproduction of a prinl by Richard

Benson has an exceptionally long
tonal scale with subtle, clear, beautiful
separation of the Low vaLues. The
original print is acryLic paint applied
to aluminium. I t was produced from
eight halftone separations made from
the origina1 negative.

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The Physica1 Levet | 25
 Anonymous
As an object, a photograph has its
old man v/ ltn apples
own life in the world. I t can be saved
in a shoebox or in a museum. I t can 'rr" "* ""-"
be reproduced as information or as
an advertisement. I t can be bought and
sold.. I t may be regarded as a utilitarian
object or as a work of art. The context
in which a photograph is seen effects
the meaní ngs a viewer draws í rom it,

26 ] The Physical LeveL

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oť the Conquest, South and transverse dunes

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By consciously adopting a visual style, Wa] ker Evans
a photographer can reference this B-d, o- an| fa rn ho .so

context and bring these meanings to Ha] e County, A] abama

-Walker
the reading of the image, as
Evans did when he made this photograph
in, what he called, (documentary style'.

34 l The Physical Level

The Physica1 Leve] 35
Andrew Moore
Burger King, Governor's
I sland, New Tork
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Lisa kereszi
Burger King, Governor's
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36 l The Depictive Level

The
Depictive
LeveI
Photography is inherent] y an analytic
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discipline. a painter starts with
a blank canvas and builds a picture,
a photographer starts with the messiness
of the world and se] ects a picture. A
photographer standing before houses and
streets and people and trees and artifacts
of a cu] ture imposes an order on the
scene - simpJ_ifies the jumble by giving
it structure. He or she imposes this order
by choosing a vantage point, choosing
a frame, choosing a moment of exposure,
and by selecting a plane of focus.

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 'Walker Evans
The photographic image depicts, within
\ 4ining Town,
certain ť ormal constrairrts, an aspect
West Virginia
oí the world. This photograph by Evans
!.936
depicts a store, gas pumps ) a car, a road,
hit] s and houses, sky. Tt also depicts
receding space.

The formal character oí the image is a

resu] .t of a range of physical and optical
factors. These are the factors that define
the nhvsical level of the photograph,
But on the depictive level there are
four central ways in which the world
in front of the camera is transformed
into the photograph: flatness, ť rame,
time, and focus.

These four attributes deí ine the picture's

depictive content and structure, They
ť orm the basis of a photograph's visual
grammar. They a] ] e responsible for
a snapshooter's
6mistakes': a blur,
a behead.ing, a jumble, an awkward
moment. They are the means by which
photographers express their sense of the
world., give structure to their perceptions
and articulation to their meanings,

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The í irst means of transformation CastLe Rock, CoLumbia
is flatness. The world is three- River" L867
d,imensional; a photographí c image
js lwo-dimensjonal , Because of thjs
flatness, the d,epth of depictive space
always bears a relationship to the
picr,ure pJane. The piccr,,rc plane is
a field upon which the lens's image
is projected. A photographic image
can rest on this picture plane and,
at the same time, contain an illusion
of deep space.

40 l The Depictive Level: FLatness

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 Lee FriedLander
Photographs have (with the exception T"1."ry§
KnoxviLLe,
of stereo pictures) monocular vision
L97 |"
point, They
- one d.efinite vantage
do not have the depth perception that
our binocular vision affords us, when
three-dimensional space is projected
monocularI y on to a plane, relationships
are created that d-id not exist before the
picture was taken. Things in the back of
the picture are brought into juxtaposition
with things in the front, Any change
in the vantage point results in a change
in the relationships. Anyone who has
closed one eye, held, a finger in ť ront of
his or her face, and then switched eyes
knows that even this two-inch cha,nge
in vantage point can produce a dramatic
difference in visual relationships,

To say that new relationships are

created does not mean that the yield
sign and cloud jn rhis pholograph
by Lee Friedlanderwere not there
in front of the camera, but that
] ,he visual relationship between them,
the cloud sitting like cotton candy
on top of the sign, is a product of
photographic vision,

42 l The Depictive Leve] : FLatness

The Depictive Leve] : Flatness 43
Some photographs are opaque. Thomas struth

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Some photographs are transparent,
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I n the ť ield, outside the controlled André kerlósz

coní ines of a studio, a photographer is Dubo, Dubon,

confronted with a complex web of visual Dubonnel, Paris, 19ó4

juxtapositions that realign themselves
with each step the photographer takes.
Take one step and something hidden
comes into view; take another and an
object in the ť ront now presses up against
one in the distance. Take one step and
the d.escription of deep space is clarified;
take anolner and it is obscured.

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Sammy's Bar, 1940

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 Nicholas Nixon I n bringing order to this situation,
Friendly, a photographer solves a picture,
Wesl Virginia", more than composes one.
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The Depictive Level: Flatness | 53

The next transformative element Robert Adams
is the frame. A photograph has edges; C] ear cut a] ong
the world does not. The edges separate the Nehalem River
what is in the picture from what Til] amook Couniy,
is not. Robert Adams could airn his 0regon
camera down a little bit and to the 1,97 6

right, include a railroad track in this

pholograph of a partially clear-cut
Western landscape, and send a chilling
reverberation through the image's
content and meaning.

54 The Depiciive Leve] : Frame

The Depictive Level: Frarne | 55
 The frame corra] s the content of the Aaron Diskin
photograph al] at once. The objects, The Shadow
people, events, or forms that are in !,995
the forefront of a photographerrs
attention when making the fine framing
decisions are the recipients of the
ť rame's emphasis. The frame resonates
off them and, in turn, draws lhe viewerrs
attention to thern.

Just as monocular vision creates

juxtapositions of lines and shapes within
the image, edges create relationships
between these lines and shapes and the
frame. The re] ationships that the edges
create are both visua] and (contentualr.

56 | The Depiclive Leve] : Frame

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The men in the foreground of this He] en Levilt
photograph by Helen Levitt bear a New York
visual relationship not only to each ^ 4 aLE.

other, but also to the lines of the frame.

The frame energizes the space around
the ť igures. These formal qualities
unite the disparate action of this picture,
the seated man with his stolid stare,
the languid dialogue of the two on the
left, and the streetwise angularity of
the central figure, í nto the jazzy cohesion
of L940s New York Citv street ] ife.

58 | The Depictive LeveL: Frame

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The Depictive LeveL: Fra"me | 59

 $,/ i} liam Eggleston
For some pictures the frame acts
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passively. I t is where the picture ends,
c. L97a
The structure of the picture begins
within the image and works its way
out to the frame.

As the street in this photograph by

V,/ illiam Eggleston leads to a pine wood
beyond the sub-d_ivision's boundaries,
so the photograph's structure implies
a world continuing beyond its edges,

60 l The Depictive Level: Frame

The Depictive Level: Frame | 61
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For some pictures the frame is active. Slephen Shore

The structure of the picture begins El Pa,so Sireet,
with the frame and works inward. El Paso. Texas t 975

'M/ hile
we know that the buildings,
sidewalks, and sky continue beyond
the edges of this urban landscape, the
world of the photograph is contained.
within the frame. Tt is not a fragment
of a larger wor] d.

62 Tl:,e Depictive Level: Fra,me

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Japanese woodblock prints use the Toyokrrni I I I (Kunisada)

frame in a wa.y that is more reminiscent S.^ ,- fro.r a Kab,k' plaJ

of photographs than of Western painting. c. t85O

I t has been suggested that this was a

resu] t of the Eastern scroil tradition -
seeing the infinitely variable croppings
that occu,_r when viewing a scroll as it
is roLled from hand to hand. Perhaps by
examining what gives these prints their
sense of photographic framing we can
clarify what photographic framing is.

Notice hoq in the upper right of the

picture, the frame gives emphasis
to the angel's hand staying the sword.
The angel is described with the greatest
economy: the artist has given the least
information needed ť or us to read this
being as an angel. There is something
slyly wonderí u] about our ability to
make an interpretation based on this
m i n ima l descri pL_ on.

Now, notice the leg jutting into the

image frorn the lower right. I t is really
arnazing that the artist chose to add this.
I t doesn't relate to any of the action in
the picture. I t is enlirely extraneous. 11,
typií ies the sort of seemingly arbitrary
cropping that occurs when the frame
of a photograph slices through the world.
V,/ hile it doesn't relate to the uní olding
drama of the picture, it does imply that
this drama is a part of a larger world.

64 l The Depiclive LeveL: Frame

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Ha"rtford, 1979

The Depictive LeveL: Frame | 67

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Two factors affect time in a photograph: Larry Fink
the duration of the exposure and the Studio 54, New York
staticness of the final image. Just as a City, May 1977

three-dimensional world is transformed

when it is projected on to a f] at piece
of film, so a fluid world is transformed
when it is projected on to a static piece
of film. The exposure has a duration, what
John Szarkowski in The Photographer's
Eye called (a discrete parcel of time'.
The duration of the exposure could be ...

one ten thousandth of a second ...

Frozen tirne: an exposlrre oť short

duration, cutting across the grain
of time, generating a ne-w moment.

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SLeeping Baby,
Extrusive time: the movement occurring Kathmandu, Nepa] , 19B0
in front of the camera, or movement
of the camera itself, accurnulating on
the film, producing a blur.

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Pepper, l9ó0

still time: the content is at rest and

time is still.

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Frank Goh] ke
Aftermath: the Wichita
Fa] L, Texas, Tornado
no. 1OA, Maplewood Ave.
n^ ar SiKes 'onuor lr/ a

Looking East, April

!-4,L979/ Aflerrnaih:
lhe Wichiia, FaLl
Texas, Tornado no. tOB,
Maplewood Ave., near
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Looking East, June, l9BO

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 Bob Mulligan
[ Richard Nixon the Day
afier lhe Hiss Verdict]
1950

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Focus is the fourth major transformation P. H. Emerson

ol the world into a photograph. Not During lhe Reed Harvest

only does a camera see 1nonocularly from tBB 6

a deť inite vantage point; it also creates

a hierarchy in the depictive space by
defining a single plane of í ocus. This
plane, which is usually parallel wilh
the picture plane, gives emphasis to
part of the picture and helps to distil
a photograph's subject í rorn its content.

I n this photograph by P. I { . Emerson,

the shallo-w area in í ocus - the image's
depth of field - draws the ví ewer's
awareness immediately to the three reed
harvesters in the foreground. I t isolates
them from the fourth harvester and from
the marshes in the background. The plane
of í ocus acts as the edge of our attention
cutting through the scene.

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 Robert Adams
Examine this photograph by Robert
Outd.oor Theater and.
Adams. Move your attention from the
Cheyenne Mountain
bottom edge, back through the parking
L968
lot, to the movie screen. From the screen,
move your attention to the mountain
to its right and from there to the sky,

Follow the same path through the picture,

but now be aware that as your eye moves
back through the parking lot - as your
attention recedes through the depictive
space - you have a sensatí on oť changing
í ocus, yoL^ r eyes focusi ng p-ogressiveJy
í urther away.

Notice that as your attention moves frorn

the screen to the mountain there is Little
or no change of focus.

Notice that as your attention moves from

the mountain to the sky there is a shift
oť focus, but now, instead oí moving back,
your focus is seemingly moving forward,
coming closer.

NoL,icerhat rhe dj rection and speed

of your relocusing is not tied to the
recession in depictive space. The clouds
may be further away than the movie
screen, but your í ocus moves closer,

84 The Depictive Level: Focrrs

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 Robert Ada"ms
Examine this photograph by Robert
outdoor Theater and
Adams. Move your attention frorn the
Cheyenne Mountain
bottom edge, back through the parking
L968
lot, to the movie screen. From the screen,
move your attention to the mountain
to its right and from there to the sky,

Follow the same path through the picture,

but now be aware that as your eye moves
back through the parking lot - as your
attention recedes through the depictive
space - you have a sensation of changing
focus, your eyes focusing progressively
ť urther away.

Notice that as your attention moves from

the screen to the mountain there is little
or no change of í ocus.

Notice that as your attention moves from

the mountain to the sky there is a shift
oí focus, but now, instead of moving back,
your focus is seemingly moving forward,
corning closer.

Notice that the direction and speed

of your refocusing is not tied to the
recession in depictive space. The clouds
may be ť urther away than the movi e
screen, but your focus moves Closer.

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 Jan Groover
M/ hile with most cameras the lens is
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attached to a rigid camera body and so
L9B5
bears a fixed relationship to the picture
plane, with a traditional view camera
the lens, which is attached to flexib] -,
bellows, can be pivoted sideways or up
and down. This allows the plane of ť ocus
to be manipulated so that it is no longer
parallel to the picture plane, I t can even
run perpendicular to the picture plane,
as in this still life by Jan Groover,

86 ] The Depictive Leve] : Focus

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The spatial hierarchy generated by the Brassar
plane of focus can be eliminated only by Graffiti
photographing a flat subject that is itself c. L935
parallel to the picture plane.

88 J The Depictive Leve] : Focus

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The hierarchical emphasis created by Judilh Joy Ross
the plane of focus can be minimizeC From
(Easton Portraits'
by increasing the depth oť fieLd. But
there is still one plane that is in focus, t 9B8

with space before and behind rendered

with diminishing sharpness. There is
a gravitation of attention to the plane
of focus. Attention to ť ocus concentrates
our attention.

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Prrhli eilv still í 'rom
(Docks oť New Or] eans',

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Aclion pholo
(After Hans Namuth)
1997

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 Mitch Epstein
Unlilled, New Tork 1998

94 The Depictive Leve] : tr'ocus

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....- Nord.
Rimini 1991

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 Paul Caponigro
Death Va] ] ey,
Caliť orniar 1975

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The
Mental
Leve1
You see a mental image
- a mental
construction when you read this page,
or look at a photograph, or see anything
else in the world. your focus even shifts
when reading this picture by Paul
Caponigro. But your eyes don't actually
refocus (since you are only looking at a
ť lat page). Tt is your mind that changes
focus within your mental image of the
picture, with all the attendant sensations
of refocusing your eyes. I t is your menta1
focus that is shifting.
pictures exist on a mental ] evel that
may be coincident with the depictive
level - what the picture is showing -
but does not rnirror it. The mental
] evel elaborates, refines, and
embellishes our perceptions of the
depictive level. The mental ] evel of
a photograph provides a frarnework
for the menta] image we construct
oť (and for) the picture.

Light reflecting off this page is focused

by the lenses in your eyes on to your
retinas. They send electrical impulses
along the optic nerves to your cerebral
cortex. There your brain interprets these
impulses and constructs a mental image.

This, surprisinglg is an acquired ability.

Patients who have had their eyesight
restored after having been blind from
birth at first see only light. They have
to learn how to construct a menta] image.

The Menta] LeveL 97

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 Thomas Annan
While the mental level is separate í rom 6l Saltmarkei
CLose, No.
the d.epictive level, it is honed by formal
LB6B-7 7
decisions on that level: choice of vantage
point (where exactly to take the picture
from), í rame (what exactly to include),
time (when exactly to release the shutter),
and- focus (what exactly to emphasize
with the plane of focus), By focusing
on the black void at the end of this
impossibly narrow ally, Thomas Annan
draws our mental focus through the
confined space of the image, Focus s the
j

bridge between the mental and depictive

levels: focus of the lens, focus of the eye,
focus of attention, focus of the mind,

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space but shallow space on the mental caňon of kanab wash
level - in which there is little sensation Colorado River,
of your eye changing focus. Looking Soulh
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100 | The Menta] Leve]

 The Mental Level i 101

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Conversel3r, a photograph may have Frederick sommer
shallow depictive space but deep Glass, l94ó
mental space.

102 | The Menta"L LeveL

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A photograph may utilize structural Berenice Abbott
devices to emphasize deep space (layering Department of Docks,
of planes, receding diagona} s, verticals New York City, 19ó6
in tension with the edges, etc.) but have
shallow mental space.

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uninť lected structure but have recessive Peach, Santa" Fe,

mental space. New Mexico, 19B9

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 'WaLker
I n this Walker Evans photograph Evans

track your focus through the space Gas Station, F-eedsvi] le

of the picture. Mlesl Virginial t936

Look at the sky in relation to the rest

of the picture.

Unlike the Adams photograph of the

drive-in theatre where the sky moved
forward, the sky here appears to float
on a diť ferent plane, as though it were
cut out from a different picture, as
lhough it were a collage. This collaging
appears when there is a difference in
the degree of attention a photographer
pays to different parts of the picture.
For this to happen, the photographer
needs to pay intense, clear, heightened
attention to one part of the picture,
but not to another.

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The crystallí ne clarity of Garry WorLd's Fair,
Winogrand,'s awareness of a photograph New York City, 1o64
cutting through motion and time makes
this image oí people interacting on
a bench absolutely riveting, The
quality
and intensity of a photographer's
attention leave their imprint on the
mental level oí the photograph, This
does not happen by magic,

A photographer's basic formal tools

for defining the content and organization
of a picture are vantage point, frame,
focus, and. time. What a photographer
pays attention to governs these decisions
(be they conscious, intuitive,
or auto-
matic). These decisions resonate with the
clarity of the photographer's attention,
They conform to the photographer's
mental organí zaŤ ,ion - the visual gestalt
- of the picture,

Tf you right now become aware oť

the space between yourselí and this
your
pagel there is a transmutation of
of
attention and perception, This sort
perceptual change - this modification
oí the mental image - would, for
a

photographer, lead to a realignment

of his or her forma} decisions in
making a photograph,

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 Gustave Le Gray
The Beech Tree
c. LB56

t{ 2 l The Mental Level

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WiLLiam Eggleston
Unlitled
c. !,97 0

The Menta] Leve] 11ó

Emmet Gowin
'Wadi
Sivap,h Petra
Jordan, 1982

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 Dorotbree" La-rrge

Second Born. Berkele

The Mental Level I t15

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Alfred Slieglitz
Poplars, Lake George,
/ 07a

116 MentaL Modelling

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 Menta1
ModelI ing
The mental levelrs genesis is in the
photographerrs menta1 organization
of the photograph. V/ hen photographers
take pictures, they hold mentar rno.le] s
in their mí nds; models that are tre :es:l,|
oť the proddings of insight, conci,_cll_ng,
and comprehens,i on of th- wor_c.
At one extreme, the model is rig_i a:_l
ossified, bound by an accumui:_tiol oj _:s
conditioning: a photographer recog.__z:s
only subjects that fit the mod.eL, o:l
structures pictures only in acco:lCar_c:
with the model. A rudimentary ex:,:1_1_-
of this is a mental ť ilter that perr:_:s
only sunsets to pass through. At lre o:.,.:
extreme, the model is supple anC j_:_i.
readily accommodating and adjus:i:::
to new perceptions.
For most photographers, the mode,
operates unconsciously. But, by mak_l_g
the model conscious, the photoglap] ] er]
brings it and the mental level of ;he
photograph under his or her controi.
Earlier r suggested that you become
aware of the space between you and
the page in this book. That caused arL
alteration oť your mental model. You can
add to this awareness by being mindful,
r_ghi now, of yourself sitting in your
:h:._::, its back pressing against your
s1-1e. To this you can add an awarelless
ci:le sounds in your room. And a] l the
-.= :_le, as you] ] awa] ] eness is shifting and
lleriia] model is metamorphosing,
;-:,;:
:eading this book, seeing these
;-] - :,r] e
-.-.-_] ] ] ;-
- -,ar3"3- t".ordS, which are only
_:_'l.- ::_ tapel, the ink depicting a series
:i i,_:_:l;,- __t.ie symbols whose meaning
_s ::l_-,-:;ea cn the menlal leve] . And
,__ ::_: .,,;| --el as your framework of
-;.:ll-::stalClng shiť ts, you continue
:c :::a j :.ld to contemplate the nature
:i l:l_c:cgraphs.
MenlaL Modelling ] 117
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Diane Arbus
Woman on a Pa,rk Bench
on a S.nnJ DaJ, N.V.n.,

L9 69

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 Lee Friedlander
I daT,o !-972

Modetling l 119

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Fazal Sheikh
Darmi Ha] ake GiLo,
SoloLo, Kenya, 1992 93

t20 MentaL ModeLting

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Frederick sommer
V,^ g'-aror,i,] dll:.,
St. Anne and the I nť a"ni
St. John,1966

Mental Modelling t21

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Each level oí a photograph is determined Eugěne Atget

by attributes of the previous level. 0rienla"] Poppy

Date unknown
The print provides the physica,|
framework ť or the visual parameters
of the photographic image. The ť ormal
decisions, which themselves are a product
oť the nature oť that image, ar:e the tools
the mental model uses to impress itselť
upon the picture. Each ] evel provides
the foundation the next level builds
upon. At the same time, each reflects
back, enlarging the scope and meaning
of the one on which it rests. The mental
level provides counterpoint to the
depictive theme. The photographic image
turns a piece of paper into a seductive
illusion or a moment oť truth and beauty.

M^ . a, Vod^ L,'1g

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JobLess
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Ambush II
From
(SrnalI Wars'

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Mental MocleLLing 125

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lr4an rn §ireel
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Williarn Eggleston
Untitled
c. !,9Bó

Menla] } lodeLLí ng | 127

Lee Fried] ander
New York
1 966

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Kenrreth Josephson
New york state
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Mental Modelling | 129

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Tim Davis
StiLL Life with Apples
2003

1 JO I M.r ra, Vode lj ng

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Andreas Gursky
Greeley
2003

\ ,4erraI Mod, ,irgll3'

-When Stephen Shore
make a photograph: mJ
T L990
Yucatan, Mexico
perceptions feed into my mental
model. My model adjusts to accommodate
my perceptions (leading me to
change my photographic decisions),
This modelling ad justment alters,
in turn, my perceptions, And so
on. I t is a dynamic, self-modifying
process. I t is what an engineer would
call a í eedback loop,

I t is a complex, ongoing, spontaneous

interaction of observation, understanding,
imagination, and intention,

1J2| } "4,n'aL Voo" 1'ng

Menta] ModelLing l t33
picture credits
6 Copyrigh] : Robert
Frank, from (The
Americans), courlesy
Pace/ MacGilL Gallery,
New York; 9 Copyright
Jo'n Gossag"! l' CaJe-',
Rudolf Kicken. Courtesy
of Dieler Appett; l3
Library oí Congress;
t4 Col] ection of Stephen
and Ginger Shore; l7
Courtesy 303 GalLery,
New York; L9 Photo copy
right 1986 O Anne
Turyn; 20 Courtesy ó03
Gallery, New York; 21
Courlesy of lhe ariist
and Luhring Augustine,
\ -w lorx1 22 Co,r'^ sJ
3O3 GaLlery, New York;
23 Courlesy of lhe arlist
and JOó Gallery, New
York;25 Courtesy
Richa"rd Benson; 27
CoLLection oť Slephen and
Ginger Shore; 2B
Courlesy of ihe artist
and Meiro pictures
Gallery; 30 George
Eastma"n House; ó1 U.S.
Geologica} Survey1 32
Courlesy 3O3 GalLery,
New York; 33 Courlesy of
Bernd and HiLla Becher;
35 Library of Congress;
36 top O Andrew L.
Moore/ courtesy Yancey
Richardson GaLLery1 ó6
boltom Courtesy of the
artist and Yancey
Richardson GaLlery; 39
Library ol Congress1 4l
The J. PauL Gelty
Museum1 4ó Courtesy
L -aen< el Ga "ery, Sa
Francisco; + 4 7 @
Thomas Struth, 2aa5;49
Copyright Eslate of
André Kerté sz, courtesy
of silverstein
Photography, New York;
50 Courtesy Baudoin
Lebon Keite] man; 5t O
Zeke Berrnan, courlesy ROSS, couriesy ť ať e/
_/ l2O Courlesy Fazal
Laurence Mil] er Gal} ery, MacGill GaLLery, New Sheikh; l2t O Frederick
New York; 52 3 Courtesy York; 93 O Vik Muniz & Frances Sommer
Fraenke1 GalLery, San and lhe Estate of Hans Foundation; l23
Francisco; 55 Courtesy Námulh/ VAGA, NY, Co] lection of Stephen
Fraenke] GalLery, San courtesy Fortes Vilaga and Grngel Ďnole; rZ+
Francisco; 57 Courtesy GaLLery, Sikkema, O Die Pholographische
Aaron Diskin; 59 O Jenkins&Co.&Xippas SammLung/ SK Stií tung
He] en Levitt, courtesy Gallery; 94 O Black Kultur August Sander
Laurence MiLLer Gallery, River Productions, Archiv, Cologne1 DACS,
New York; 6í O 2006 Ltd/ Mitch Epsle,n; London, 2aa6; !.25
Eggleston Artistic Trust, 95 Courlesy Guido Courtesy Murray Guy,
couriesy Cheim and Guidi;96 Copyrighl New York; l26 Courtesy
Read, New York. Used PauL Caponigro. Used Jeff WaLl; 1-27 a 2aa6
with permission. ALL by perrnission; 99 The J. Eggleston Artistic Trust,
rights reserved; 6ó PauL Getty Museum; tOt courtesy Cheim and
Courtesy 3O3 Gallery, The J. Paul Getty F,ead, New York. Used
New York; 66 Copyright Museum; !-a2 ó a with permission.
of the artist, courtesy Frederick & Frances ALL rights reserved;
,.
Anthony ReynoLds Sommer Foundalion1 B Co "r--sJ Fra^ nk^
Gallery; 67 Copyrighi, tO5 BereniceAbbott/ GaLlery, San Francisco;
PhiLip Lorca diCorcia, Commerce Graphics Ltd, 129 @ Kenneth
courl:esy Pace/ MacGiLL I nc; 107 Copyright Parrl Josephson, courtesy
Gal} ery, New York; Caponigro. Used Rhona Hoť fma"n Gallery,
óB-9 Copyright Richard by permission; t09 Chicago; 1óO Courtesy
Prince. Photos: Davio Library of Congress1 Tim Davis; 131
Regen, Courtesy 1tt O The Estate Copyright Andreas
G] adstone Gallery, oť Garry WinograncL. Gursky, courlesy Monika
New York; 7t O The Courtesy Fraenkel Sprů th / Phi} omene
Estate of Garry GaLlery, San Francisco1 Magers1 tó3 Courtesy
'Winogrand, courtesy :] _t2 The J. Paul Gelty 303 Gallery, New York;
Fraenke] GaLlery, San Museum; !-1-3 @ 2aa6 ló5 Copyright John
Francisco; 73 Courtesy lgg_^ s,on A _r _sl'- TrusL. Szarkowski. Courtesy
Larry Fink; 75 Courtesy courtesy Cheim and Pace/ MacGi1l Ga"LLery,
Linda Connor; 77 Read, New York. Used New York.
Co] ] ection Center for with permission. A] l
Creative Pholography rights reserved; ll4
O19B1 Arizona Board of
-ooy-igJ" Fm,"- ard
Regents; 7B Courtesy Tod Edith Gowin, Courtesy
Papageorge; 79 Courtesy Pace/ MacGiLL GaLlery,
Frank GohLke; BO O l.trew York; 1t5 @ The
Bortnanl/ ^ ola,s;at Dorothea Lange
Courtesy Michae] Collection, The OakLand
Schmidt; 83 The J. PauL Museum of California,
^ Getty Museum Cily of OakLand. Gift
B5 Courlesy FraenkeL of PauL S. Taylor; t16
Gallery, San Francisco; George Eastman House.
B7 Courtesy Janel Courtesy lhe Georgí a
Bord^ r. nn.. Ncv rorki U,Keeie trounclatlon;
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o tSTATf BP ASSA l / o o72 lh^ EsLa L- oí ,
89 l
R.M.N. @ Photo RMN/ O Diane Arbus LLC; !,L9
Adam Rzepka; 91 Courtesy FraenkeL
Copyrighl Judith Joy Ga"l1ery, San Francisco;
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 I ndex of Artists

Abbott, Berenice 'W

Eggleston, il] iam Lé , An-My Sommer, Frederick
105 6L, LLs, !-27 L25 Laz 3, !-2!-
Adams, Robert Emerson, P. H. Le Gray, Gustave Sternfeld, JoeL
55, 85 Bó !,t 2 2I
Annan, Thomas Epstein, Mitch J'eví ll, Helen Stieglitz, ALfred
99 94 59 L!,6

Anonymous Evans, Wa] ker Model, Lisette Struth, Thomas

L4, 27, 29, 92 L3) ó5, ó9, !-09 bL) 4+ 7
Appelt, Dieter Fink, Larry Moore, Andrew Szarkowski, John
!,L 36 L36
Arbus, Diane Frank, Robert Mulligan, Bob Toyokuni I I I (Kunisada)
LLB 6 B0 65

Atget, Eugěne Friedlander, Lee Muniz, Vik Turyn, Anne

l o7
43, LL9. LzB 93 !,9

Nixon, Nicho] as U.S. Geological Survey

3ó F-, z
3!-

Be} l, William H. O'Sullivan, T. H. WaLL, Jeff

LoL 3a

Benson, Richard Papageorge, Tod Watkins, C. E.

78 1+
!,

Berman, Zeke Prince, Richard Weston, Edward

FÁ
689 77

Brassai Ross, Judith Joy Winogrand, Garry

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Caponigro, Paul Sander, August
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Connor, Linda Schmidt, Michae]

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Davis, Tim Schorr, Co] ] ier

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Demand, Thomas Sheikh, Fa,zal

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Diskin, Aaron Dorothea Shore, Stephen

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 A cknowledgements John szarkowski
Mother
6. This book grew oul of a course I have taught
l for many years at Bard Col1ege in Annanda] e- t 99B
A on-Hudson, New York. When I first started
I teaching lhe course, I used John Szarkowski's
} The Photographer's Eye as a text and wilhout
J it as a precedenl The Nalure of Photographs
F would nol ha"ve been written.
c)

l The first dra"ft was written whi] e I was a"

I feL] ow at the MacDoweLL CoLony in New Hampshire.
a The combinalion of so] itude during the day and
C Lively conversation at dinner heLped me keep
} my focus. While there, the ea"rly stages of this
I project benefited frorn the advice of Michae]
T Almereyda. The present work evo] ved over severaL
C years. I arn especiaLly gra"tefuL to Jarnes Enyeart,
C Char] es Hagen, and George F, Thompson ol the
a Center for American Places, the publisher of
} lhe first incarnation of lhis book, for the time
a lhey took to rnake detai] ed comments on rny
manuscript.
a
My understanding of lhe importance of focus
was stirnuLated by Amos Gunsberg. For a descriplion
of lhe mechanics of seeing, T have referred lo
Seeing wilh the Mind)s Eye (1975) by Mike and
Nancy SamueLs.

Without the cooperation of a] L lhe photographers,

gaLLeries, and instilutions who a] Lowed me to
reproduce work, this book wouLd nol have been
'Weston
possible. T particularly wish to thank
Naef of the Getty Museum, Peter MacGill of
PaceMacGiLl, and Lisa SpeL} man and Mari Spirilo
oť 303 Gallery. My interest in pholography
and perception conlinues to be stimu] aled by
conversations with Jeff Rosenheim of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Pielro
Perona of CalTech, and with MichaeL Fried of
Johns Hopkins. I have aLso learned rnuch from my
coLleagues at Ba"rd CoLLege, Laurie Dah} berg,
Tim Davis, Barbara Ess, Larry Fink, An My Lé ,
John Pilson, and Luc Sante, as weLl as from
my studenls.

At Phaidon Press, I 'm deepLy indebted to Arnanda

Renshaw, Alex Stetter and Paul McGuinness for their
wisdorn and insight throughoul the whoLe process of
producing this book, to Scotl Williams and Henrik
Kubel for lheir elegant design, and to Richa"rd
Schlagman for his continued support.

Finally, I arn indebted to my wife, Ginger, for her

council and encouragement.

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