Chapter 5 of the book Criticizing Photographs by Terry Barrett talks about Photographs and Context and how it's important to know the context to help place the photographs on the six categories shown in chapter 4. It's basic to understand who made it, when, where, how, and for what purpose; This is known as contextual information that can also be internal, original, or external. Internal Context Barrett explains that it's essential to focus on what is descriptively evident, for example: the photographs subject matter, medium, form, and the relationship among the three. Original Context depends of outside knowledge "Photographs in the theoretical category depend on knowledge of art and the art world." (Barrett,107). The last form of contextualization is External Context where the situation of a photograph is presented or found; "How and where a photograph is seen radically affects its meaning." (Barrett, 109)
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