We see the world through our experience.
A good question has many answers.
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.
My mantra is, 'This or something better.'
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.