ABSTRACT
This chapter explores photography’s ability to stimulate reader's visual and intellectual mind in ways that help them understand their world in new, remarkable ways! Still-frame images have the potential to show them unnoticed aspects of the world around them and even within themselves. They can teach the photographer and the viewer how to see and find meaning in the world. Meaningfulness in photography can be understood through its product, the photograph, which not only records aspects of the photographer’s experience but can produce an experience in the viewer. Photographs provide a kind of vicarious experience, but they can also provide a direct, firsthand experience. Photography is a profound art form, yet most people misunderstand what it is and can be. For many, photography is the act of thumbing open a camera app, aiming, and pressing a big dot on a touchscreen.
