Swear.
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak."
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Penguin, London, 1972)
The basic tenet of this is true, though of course, seeing without words is a desperate place to be and a child will absorb language at an astonishing rate from an impossibly early age, proffering epithets to a parent's delight. I speak from experience. This photographic essay is based upon the ideas Berger put forward in Ways of Seeing, an early BBC series about insight into the visual arts.
Swear.
