HT2126 - About Backgrounds, Sort Of

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HT2126 - About Backgrounds, Sort Of

We need a new word other than "background" to describe what I want to discuss in today's commentary. We normally think of the background of a photograph as that part that's not the subject but is still inside the borders of the image. But every photograph has another background that is either the mat board of a framed print, or the margins around the image in a book.