MASTERPIECE ESSAY

                             Is a photograph worth 1,000 words? As a photographer withholding an artistic eye, I defintly believe a photograph is worth 1,000 words or even more. When I look at my own photography or even someone else's I can see more than one emotion and more than one subject within. Each photograph ever taken holds a story and we all can makeup that story. For example the photograph, "Migrant Mother", taken by Dorothea Lang in 1936, if you didn't know the history behind the photograph there would be many ideas imagned within that enticing photograph. One individual may question why is the mother looking out into the distance, confused and worried. Holding her head tightly showing every worried wrinkle. Another indivdual may just see the two children; one on the left standing in back off the mother looking down only showing the topside of his head with a bowl cut hairstle. And the other child on the right side of the concerned mother  right side inward of the mother, resting on the mother's shoulder and the other hand resting as it looks like on his face. But all within the question it shows the fact they're dressed in rags. One of the child's hand painted as if in dirt and their shaggy and dirty hair holds the knowing of what we can see within. It's not just this photograph where we can see each detail and question but with every photograph as individuals we wonder, why? Why did such person/artist believe there was potential in the photos we see masked around everything. Photographs catch people's eye. Wheather it being an historic photography, provacative photography, or even just a family portrait taken by a stranger at Disneyland. A photograph holds within it a story. The words to express the emotions towards it can be everlasting.