Howard S. Becker - Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs. Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way.

- Howard S. Becker

source: "Visual Research Methods". Book by Peter Hamilton, 2006.

topic: Musical, Cameras, Musician, Layman, Studious, Time Consuming