The Word Photograph

     A photograph is, by definition, a picture created by photography.  And photography of course has a somewhat more complicated definition, something along the lines of the art of creating pictures on sensitized surfaces.  Or so dictionary.com tells me.  But to me, as I touched on in my last post, photography is mostly just a form of communication.  If photography itself is a language, than photos are the words.  It's a language full of emotion and insight.  Just like any other language it can be used to almost any purpose.  It can reveal truths, it can lie, and it has it's own sorts of misunderstandings.  Photography can be manipulated and it has multiple levels of understanding.  It can be one of the strongest form of communication, able to create a window into someone else's world, that any other language might not be able to do.