Arnold Newman when discussing his portraits wrote, "I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense, to an extent. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals; the inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even to the man himself."
I think the same can be said of all images created whether they are of people, a still life, scenic, documentary, etc...
We look at a two dimensional photograph of a person as if this represents reality. When it actually is an image marker of the split second of exposure that symbolizes the ego of the subject or the ego of the photographer.
What we seem to get caught up in when looking at the world is the abstract concepts of things, the symbols they represent not the thing itself. When we look for the background details of a subject only then do we begin to approach the subject honestly. We begin to see the undercurrents of subject impressionism. That is the subjects willingness to be discovered on a deeper level through your intuition, timing and interaction. And the subjects willingness to give more of themselves to you.
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