Does a photo need to say something?

[Loupey]

I suppose it doesn't need to say something. But it always does.

Someone please show me an image that says absolute nothing.


Better yet, someone come up with a scenario that achieves this. I could print a completely black rectangle (or white, or gray) and put a mat around it and frame it and it would still say something.

[AgingEyes]

I suppose it doesn't need to say something. But it always does.

Someone please show me an image that says absolute nothing.


Better yet, someone come up with a scenario that achieves this. I could print a completely black rectangle (or white, or gray) and put a mat around it and frame it and it would still say something.

Easy. Just take a look at my photos I'm not saying anything.

Sometimes it's the viewers who think the photo is saying something. One could have the shutter button of the camera accidentally pressed and, viola, a photograph. I don't think you can deny that a photograph is produced as a result.

Does that photograph say anything? I guess it's all up to the viewers. But then I'd find it funny somebody would try to find a meaning for such a photograph. Probably on the assumption that since it is a photograph, it could be art, it could carry a meaning, the photographer wants to tell us something and so let's figure it out.

Does the "photographer" mean it to say anything? He/she may not even know he has taken the photo

[drg]

Photographs show something, otherwise they are mute.

[rajbrijesh]

Yes definitely.