
Lost Context
Before the Caption: What a Photograph Cannot Tell You
Before the caption, a photograph can show visible details but leave names, causes, dates, and relationships uncertain.…
How captions, cropping and missing information alter an image's meaning.

Before the caption, a photograph can show visible details but leave names, causes, dates, and relationships uncertain.…
A photograph can show what is missing as clearly as what remains. Looking closely makes room for more than one reading.