Composition Means Nothing30
Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
—Bertrand Russell
I am easily amused by sentences starting with the words “Photography is all about. . . .” One such proclamation that caught my eye decreed photography to be “all about composition.” Nonsense, I thought, that’s like saying writing is all about spelling. But, curiosity got the better of me and I looked up the expression “photography is all about composition.” To my surprise, my all-knowing Internet search engine found nearly 15,000 matches!
Composition is the grammar of the visual language. Those who believe that good grammar is what writing is “all about” will do well to remember the nebulous ...
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