"Similarities and differences" is the dance we do as professionals in the visual arts. As students we learned about photography from the inside out. Professors Arnold, White, Todd, Zakia, Shoemaker, Rickmers, Stroebel, Smith, and many more drummed the science and mechanics of photography into our heads during lectures and labs. These men formed the structural foundation that made RIT the bell weather of photographic education. The flood of information about the medium laid the groundwork for the professional careers we chose to follow. The scope of those careers is evidenced in the...