ABSTRACT
The Thingness of Light Every photograph is about light. Light is a plastic medium that is the
key ingredient shared by every photograph and determines the look
of every photograph you make. Light’s authority defi nes the essence
of a subject. Light is the glue that holds your image together. Light
makes known the emotional and physical contents within your visual
space and activates vision and meaning. Every image provides a dif-
ferent set of conditions in which we can experience light. If the light
does not reveal the perceived nature of the subject, the picture will
not communicate the content you wish to transmit to a viewer. In
that sense, pictures are about what others are able to see in them.
