Question #6

Question 6. What can images do that language cannot do?

An accomplished photographer can communicate visual experiences that remain adamantly defiant to words. The writer Albert Camus stated, "If we understood the enigmas of life, there would be no need for art." We know that words have the power to name the unnameable, but words also hold within them the disclosure of a consciousness beyond language. Photographs may also convey the sensation and emotional weight of the subject without being bound by its physical bound by its physical content. By controlling time and space the photo-based images allow viewers to examine that which attracts us for often indescribable reasons. They may remind us how the quickly glimpsed, the half-remembered, and the partially understood images of our culture can tap into our memory and emotions and become part of a personal psychic landscape that makes up an integral component of identity and social order.

R. Hirsch & J. Valentino (2001)

我必须承认第六个问题打败了我。我没有足以回答它的照片。因为我和我的相机没有经过子弹、泪血、灾难、呐喊、黑暗和火光的洗礼。当然还有那些浪漫、感动、绚丽、激情、温馨和童真。