Alec Soth has posted on project and book titles. I agree with him wholeheartedly and have been finding myself titling a project before I even start. Do I limit my thinking by doing this? Do I limit the ultimate viewing when assigning titles? I am working on a project I named Main Street as a working title although the shooting has gone far wide of Main Street. But it gives me a verbal reference point, not to mention something to name the folders and write on the back up DVD's. I struggle with key-wording, however, because it seems final and title-like and I find myself resisting assigning such a tight (or loose) label to an image before I have lived with it for a while, since keywording is supposed to be done at the front end of the workflow.
There is more on words and images from a post by The Online Photographer dealing with captions in photojournalism. Accuracy as opposed to intent taking on a different role in this sphere.
Finally, an entertaining post from the blog by Leslie K. Brown that she refers to as a Geek post looking at bad wall text at exhibitions.
I find it curious that as much as we are committed to visual expression we are still tied (and occassionally tongue-tied) to language as a kind of bridge and even those who avoid/refuse/omit titles communicate something with their absence.
There is more on words and images from a post by The Online Photographer dealing with captions in photojournalism. Accuracy as opposed to intent taking on a different role in this sphere.
Finally, an entertaining post from the blog by Leslie K. Brown that she refers to as a Geek post looking at bad wall text at exhibitions.
I find it curious that as much as we are committed to visual expression we are still tied (and occassionally tongue-tied) to language as a kind of bridge and even those who avoid/refuse/omit titles communicate something with their absence.
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