Blog Prompt #10

"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it." ~John Berger. I have mixed feelings about this quotation. I agree that photographs remind us of the things that we forget, but I do not think that paintings necessarily record what the painter remembers. Many painters create their paintings from their imaginations or from photographs, rather than from their memories. Many painters use models or construct still-life scenes to look at while they paint so they don't have to paint the scene or person from memory. I think photos and paintings are equally capable of meaning different things to different people.