Searching for the Grammar of Set.
I feel there is much to be gleaned from the set, with set patterns and an emergent grammar becoming apparent the closer I look. The collection of photos is rather homogenous, with a limited set of fashion styles, poses, subtle gestures, and even facial expressions to discern. Indeed what is perhaps most notable about the set’s codes, is the lack of great variation between subjects. Such homogeneity speaking to the harsher emphasis on conformity in a historic period marked by a stricter levels of social conservatism.
This being said, I do not believe a visual analysis of the set and the codes it represents provides fertile ground for reconfiguration. I feel any deeper understanding I may gain is contingent on, and applicable to, a set that is both small and spread out over a number of decades long since passed.
I feel the knowledge I would gain from reconfiguring and cataloguing the set in such an analytical way would be insubstantial in nature; speaking of the set itself, in a limited manner that does not shed any further light on the process of cataloguing.