{"id":7655,"date":"2013-07-24T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2013-07-24T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:57:02","slug":"showing%e2%80%a6-explaining-without-words%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7655","title":{"rendered":"Showing\u2026 explaining without words\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"photoquotes_quote\">Elliott Erwitt allegedly said,\u00a0&#8220;The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don\u2019t have to explain things with words.&#8221; I really get this idea. Especially when, during a conversation, it becomes so apparent that our fellow conversant does not understand our words; or we theirs. I suppose all the arts, other than poetry and literature, provide this one-way self-expression without words. Dancing with others provides a powerful, wordless &#8220;conversation.&#8221; Some forms of music allow, or even promote &#8220;Call and Response.&#8221;\u00a0I often wish my photographs and drawings could dance with other&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\nAs they are a response to the call of light\u2026<br \/>\nfollowed by silence\u2026<br \/>\nwaiting\u2026 in stillness\u2026<br \/>\nlistening with the eyes\u2026<br \/>\nto the whispers\u2026<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7656\" title=\"L1190310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190310.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190310-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190310-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190310-1024x484.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7657\" title=\"L1190318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190318.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190318-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190318-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/L1190318-1024x686.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica R8\/DMR, 180 mm Apo Elmarit + Apo 2X\u00a0Extender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliott Erwitt allegedly said,\u00a0&#8220;The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don\u2019t have to explain things with words.&#8221; I really get this idea. Especially when, during a conversation, it becomes so apparent that our fellow conversant does not understand our words; or we theirs. I suppose all the arts, other than poetry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,33,17,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-poetry","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7663,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions\/7663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}