NORMATIVE STATEMENT

8 Normative Statement ISBN978-976-96531-6-0

According to Bob Gruen thru his lens Photography offers both limitations and opportunities when we attempt to use it as a tool for documentation while photography would seem to be the most realistic way around us, this not necessarily true. Our interpretation of what we are seeing based on the context in which we are seeing it, becomes a major part of what we see. For example, a photograph is just a selection from that overall scene. Once this selection has become a photograph it is completely isolated from the overall context in which it original existed. Gruen further stated that making worthwhile cultural photographs is often not as simple as clicking the shutter, however, it requires curiosity to see what is significant in the world around us and the discipline to photographically document it. It requires a thoughtful selection of what is

to be photographed. https://lensmagazine.net/about-cultural-photography/