publish

On this website, the word “publish” refers to putting content (including photographs) “before the public.”

This can be done on the web, in print, on television, via email lists, in exhibits and displays, and by other means.

For the purposes of this website — which deals especially with questions of “What characteristics lead viewers to trust unfamiliar photographs?”—

— anytime a photograph is merely made available to any segment of the public it is considered “published.”

• There need not be any third-party “publisher” involved between the first party (photographer) and the second party (viewer) for a photograph to be considered on this website to be “published.”

• There is no predetermined number of viewers required to consider a photograph is published (just as books can be “published” that will have only a handful of readers).