{"id":283,"date":"2010-05-07T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2010\/05\/07\/wonder-of-photos\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:02:22","slug":"wonder-of-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/05\/07\/wonder-of-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder of photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/ut-hearing-inst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123\" title=\"ut hearing inst\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/ut-hearing-inst.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at a studio for Speech and Hearing Institute Health Science Center, University of Texas at Houston. The image was taken in 1973.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThere is something about printed\u00a0photos that appeals to us on\u00a0a basic level. It is the &#8220;oh-I-want-to-see&#8221; effect. If one person whips out a photo, everyone near by wants a glimpse. Each photo offers a glimmer of\u00a0another place\u00a0and time.<br \/>\nThe photo shown today depicts a studio shoot at the Speech and Hearing Institute, Health Science Center, University of Texas at Houston. The catalog number for this photo is P-3736.\u00a0 The photo is dated 4-11-73.<br \/>\nOne of the problems with a date like 4-11-73 is the month. Obviously 73 is 1973, but the month could be April or November. The photo cannot be dated with complete certainty.<br \/>\nPhotos contain many clues that provide information about the people, places and things in the photos. For example, the camera gear, hairstyles, and clothing tells a lot about this image.\u00a0 If you look closely, you can see a hearing aid in the child&#8217;s ear.<br \/>\nWhat we cannot know is why is the technician filming the child and woman? Are they mother and daughter? Why is the hot plate perched on the edge of the sink? Is that a real kitchen or a studio kitchen. Finally, what is in that mixing bowl that seems to fascinate the girl.<br \/>\nPrinted photos may be flat but they feel 3-dimensional as though we could peek around the corner. Sometimes it is what we can&#8217;t see that is as intriguing as what we can see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about printed\u00a0photos that appeals to us on\u00a0a basic level. It is the &#8220;oh-I-want-to-see&#8221; effect. If one person whips out a photo, everyone near by wants a glimpse. Each photo offers a glimmer of\u00a0another place\u00a0and time. The photo shown today depicts a studio shoot at the Speech and Hearing Institute, Health Science Center, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/05\/07\/wonder-of-photos\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}