From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Up to interpretation

Up to interpretation

- I say this a lot here at "The Practicing Photographer", so there's no reason not to say it again. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to be a better photographer, you have to look at other people's work. You have to study it, you need to think about why it works, you, ideally, you need to think about what came before it and what it led to and how it fits into the general arc of photographic history. That all sounds like a lot of work, and it doesn't have to be. Really, you just, you need to spend time looking at photo books, that will improve your photography. When you spend time with some photo books, you're possibly going to encounter some analysis of the photos. I don't mean technical analysis, or discussion of why a photo works or doesn't work, I mean thematic analysis. You know what I'm talking about, the type of analysis that looks at an image and says "This rock symbolizes the weight of mortality, "while the chicken represents lunch", or whatever. I'm not actually making fun…

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