Response to Errol Morris on Photography

I really appreciated the line, “to collect photographs is to collect the world,” because I used to travel the country doing sports photography and each location I was in brought new, different meanings to the photographs I had taken there. I fully agree with her point on how paintings lose much more of their essential quality, compared to a photograph, when printed in a book. I believe this is the case because when a painting is reprinted into a book, the texture of the actual painting is forcibly changed to whatever kind of paper the book is printed on. But with a photograph, when it is printed in a book it is merely the same thing as if it was not printed in a book, because the texture of the physical photograph has no intentions for its meaning.