Find connection to my own photos when reading and seeing artists' works from the book 'The Nature of Photograph' by Stephen Shore

- the flatness of photographs/prints. 

My photos are flat too, so are the images in this book. 

'The world is three-dimensional; a photographic image is two-dimensional. Because of this flatness, the depth of dedicative space always bears a relationship to the picture plane. (...) A photographic image can rest on this picture plane and, at the same time, contain an illusion of deep space.' (p-40 - The detective level: Flatness)


- the four attributes: flatness, frame, time, and focus. 

"These four attributes define the picture's depictive content and structure. They form the basis of a photograph's visual grammar. (...) They are the means by which photographers express their sense of the world, give structure to their perceptions and articulation to the meanings.' (p-39 - The detective level: Flatness)


- Colour 

'Colour expands a photograph's palette and add a new level of descriptive information and transparency to the image. (...) colour is more like how we see. It has added description because it shows the colour of light and the colours of a culture or an age.' (p-18 - The Physical level)

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