The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~Henry Miller
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. ~Andy Warhol
Photography is as much about directing the subject matter as it is about capturing a performance. In this way a photograph can speak as much falsehood as it speaks truth. Depending on how you frame the story, you can evoke either confusion or recognition, or perhaps a bit of both at the same time. A change in angle or magnification can make completely alien the most familiar of things. When the subject can't be easily recognized, the patterns within the image begin to take hold of our imagination. Like life itself, the meaning of a photo is all in how we look at it.
