Photography is everywhere, any single person or object can be captured. Vilem Flusser  begins by stating that a photograph to some can have great meaning and to others a photo is a only a photo and nothing else. A black and white way of looking at things contain no in between, it’s either good or bad.  When the color of black and white is spoken of a photograph it can be a transformation of peculiar beauty as Flusser mentions.

The advancement of color photographs can make a photo appear realistic, but in Flusser’s view color may distort what the photo is portraying, he feels like a black and white photo has the advantage of being a true and real capture.

 The “decoding” process is the viewer really grasping what the photographer is trying to reveal to them. With this decoding the photographer needs a camera and the camera needs the photographer to make that image happen. If the photographer and the camera are not working well together the picture will not be viewed as a success and as Flusser mentions it will not be decoded. If they work well together the image will produce enough information so the viewer is able to see past the image and unravel it’s intentions.

 I like that Flusser is explaining in sequence the connections between a picture, a photographer and viewer, connecting every little piece so the reader may see the whole picture by the end of the reading.