Response to "A Picture You Already Know"

This article takes three different artists (Amy Adler, Alex Slade, and Penelope Umbrico) and takes an interesting look at repetition as it relates to photographs. Before this article I had never given much thought into the repetition in regards to creating series or work. I've consider repetition as a compositional aspect of photography in regards to composition. Our past project in class had me thinking about repetition in style, specifically in regards to what my personal comfort zones were in order to create new rules that opposed those comforts (indoor photography, color photography, ect...). However I had never thought of how we are brought up in a way in which the repetition of photographs is almost an expected thing, we are taught to make series. I was particularly found of the statement in the reading that said "It's something that you don't encounter as much in other mediums; you're not expected to make series in painting or sculpture in the same way," I think that is a pretty interesting point. After reading this article I'm not sure if I am certain why one photograph can not stand alone but needs to have other things in relation, I think it would be a very interesting discussion topic and I actually look forward to talking about it in class.