Abstract

Compared with other typical of photographs, we always cherish our personal photographs most, because we memories of something or someone by reading those photographs. The writer tries to read his own personal photographs in different ways. Those images of the photographs are not only have different meanings for different readers metaphysically, but also have been reserved and copied on several different media physically. Therefore, the writer thinks it seems like these images of the photographs have journeys of image dissemination from this media to another, and live in the readers’ minds.

The writer wants to express the creative conception by using several techniques, such as computer image editing, sketch transfer, and collage to change and compose the images of personal photographs in the same picture. All images are not drawn on the paper directly, but rather they are copied and pasted on it. In this way, they are being constantly changed within peoples’ mind as they are being constantly changed in many different medias.

The meaning of personal photographs are not clear and certain as we thought, even though these are photographs that we are very familiar with. Different person has different interpretation. Each time we review a photograph, we could redefine the meaning, and make a new story. Maybe photographs don’t need to be given any kind of meaning at all, but all they need, is to be seen by the people.

Keywords: personal photograph, image interpretation, image dissemination