A PICTURE VS. THE REALITY
Journal #3

Le Trahison des Images by Rene Magritte

The above painting by Rene Magritte represents the difference between an objest and the accual thing itself. The french writing in the painting roughly translates to "this is not a pipe." In fact it is not a pipe, but rather a painting of a pipe. You could not smole the above painting. You could only smoke the object that Magritte painted.

This is the same for photography. A picture of something is not the same as the accual thing. A picture of a person is not really that person. Instead, it is more a representation of that person frozen in a moment in time. A picture is a way of showing something, but it is not the actual thing.