"Every Photograph is an Enigma"

Collected Gazes
(this one is mine)

Yesterday I visited Musée Nicéphore Niépce à Chalon-sur-Saône for the exhibition Every Photograph is an Enigma - Collected Gazes conceived and presented by Michel Frizot. The text that accompanies the exhibition begins with the following paragraph: Photographic images are considered immediately intelligible. And yet, most of them provoke a brief burst of astonishment or lasting perplexity, and the feeling that we are faced with a question rather than an obvious fact.
Frizot collected images from flee-markets and the like for their unresolved nature, as he says. After some decades of collecting he comes to the conclusion that every photograph is an enigma as it is an essential ellement of the photographic process itself...
In the last paragraph it is stated that above all, it is a question of looking, and looking again. There is, however, no mystery to solve, no investigation to conduct. By looking, each of us is a producer of meaning and hypotheses. It is not the enigma of our presence in the world that photography constantly reformulates?