![]() ![]() ![]() Sontag gives warnings with this essay, cautioning against the twenty-first-century reliance on photographic images as true depictions of people and events. Instead, they are naturally open to considerable interpretation (and reinterpretation) because the viewer does not have a comprehensive idea of what is happening in the photo location or with the subjects of the photo during the picture-taking process. From Sontag's perspective, photos are neither reliable narrators nor trustworthy documentations of specific places and times. In one way or another, each of the six essays set out to answer a single overarching question: Is photography simply a journalistic process of capturing real-world events in visual form-or is it a high art on the level of painting and sculpting? The opening essay, "In Plato's Cave," starts by exploring what images are and how they relate to the concept of reality. First published in 1977, it brings together a series of nonfiction pieces originally published in The New York Review of Books between 19. ![]() ![]() On Photography is a collection of essays by American writer, academic, and activist Susan Sontag. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |