Reading Graham Clarke - How do we read a photograph

"Reading involves a series of problematic, ambiguous, and often contradictory meanings and
relationships between the reader and the image.
It is, in its own way, as complex and as rich as any written language"

In this reading Clarke deconstructs all the tiny elements of an image. His aim is to teach us that we should pay attention to all details in an image in order to evoke meaning.

A Family on Their Lawn One

Sunday in Westchester,

New York, 1969

Diane Arbus 

Clarke pays attention to setting, space, props, costume, lines, tone and more.