composite photograph by Bill Paarlberg Ms. Behavior and Then Some McCoy Gallery A photograph is an image, a record and a recognition. As an image the photograph presents the proposition of being worth our visual attention, perhaps because it is simply visually appealing – seeing registers pleasure—perhaps it is a curious sight. As a record it displaces time and holds a singular and past moment. The reality of that moment may or may not have been actual, but the photograph suggests a real something that recalls a convergence of light, color and form. The convergence may be seen as a circumstance. The photographic function of recognition is more specifically an opportunity for recognition, since recognition requires a viewer, a witness. Nancy Grace Horton’s photographs are deftly emphatic about these features to the point of stretching the image and its location in time to a circumstance that signals a real, albeit odd, present. The women in Horton’