If you can raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 cna. I cdnulot blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmeal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpelnig was ipmorentt!

Now flolonwig on wtih tihs slyte: I cna't say taht I'm ettasic aoubt the mnay prhaotgophic citrics who seem to be the msot epxret to ipnterret wrok of prhaotgophres. The why, in practiaulur may smeotiems be bsaed on the citric's own wsih; theess daremed up jsut to be deifrenft form the rset. Prhaotgophres of the eraly tentwieth cuentry, lnog daed seem to be the mian teargts for adcaemcic deisstration ad nauseum. The innane hopobyle taht I hvae raed aobut scuh gerats as, Paul Strand, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Alfred Stieglitz for isntance, colud flil a meodrately seizd sikp. If by migac thsee wendorful prhaotgophres colud hvae been ivntewrieed by thsee yonug 'wolud be's', I dobut the smae drbible wolud hvae been espresxed.

Prhaotgophy can, and is, a silmpe dipsciline. It's fun, and by any srettch of the iagminatoin it is not broing. Iamgine if you wlil a caomprison mdee beweten Walt Whitman's potery, and Walker Evan's list of puictre caitoegres - but, yuo've nitoced, not his atcual prhaotgophs. Why? Baecuse it canont be dnoe. No one but Evans wlil konw waht wnet on in his mnid socends beofre the shtuter clsoed. Siomtemes it's bset to sitck jsut to the pitcuers, jidgung tehm acicrdong to pesronal or soicety's sdandarts. If tehy're regadred as good, tehn say so. If seen as imomral, ukuind, rdue, parniogrophc, tehn say it. But alolw eevrbydoy the rgiht to epxrses thier own onpiions. Frodeem of sepech is olny the rihgt of a previilge few in gloabl temrs. Writetn lanuggaes liimt unedrsatndnig to anoyne not privilgeed to crohmpeend thsoe wrods - so ture hree!