SIMPLICITY

As I pursue my course work in Digital Photography we are studying the many different photographers that have influenced and left their mark in one way or the other on this ever changing medium. Sometimes it "seems" that the viewing public or critics for that matter attempt to make some Neo Existentialist meaning of what does the photo "say". I often wonder if the photographer ever really meant a particular image to "mean" what a critic's interpretation is. Let's take the noted Czech photographer-Jaromir Funke and one of his noted images.

What are we looking at here? A series of shapes beset by shadow, light, texture??? Or are we seeing a man enthralled in a obvious schizo-affective relapse because he forgot to take his prolixin?

I give you another image and ask what are you looking at and does it have any particular psychological meaning for you?