Susan Sontag’s book: On Photography ~ Charise J (347 ARHI)

  Susan Sontag’s book: On Photography 


    In Susan Sontag's book, "On Photography", she wrote a chapter on Plato's cave, which was the time when 3 people who were chained in a cave with no light but the light from outside which had given them a view of what is going on outside. There are three parts that I would like to talk about based on what she had wrote. 


  • "Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire." (Page 4) 
    I had chosen this sentence to let people understand that photography is similar to art. But my main purpose is to say that photos are suppose to be something that many people can put a story towards because no matter what a picture could look like, someone always has an opinion on it. Many people have different sides to things like photos of someone naked; that depends on how people interpret it. If it is a child it would be pornography but the the way the photographer interpret it as just kids enjoying themselves. People will always find a different point of view of a photo if they don't understand from the photographer or another viewer.


  • "Photography has become one of the principal devices for experiencing something, for giving an appearance of participation." (Page 10)
    This was chosen to clarify that photography is some type of entertainment to people. Photography does find a way to grab people's attention when it wants because it is a photo that someone could understand themselves. Like in a photo that was shown to me, there was a guy lying next a framed tree in the middle of an open field. The photo had grabbed my attention because the tree and the person connected. The person was laying down with their eyes closed and the tree had no leaves, which in my opinion means that they are n a connection about death because you don't know if the person is sleeping or is dead and when a tree doesn't have its leaves it mean it dead. With the framed tree, it could mean the reflection of the person laying down with their eyes closed to mean death. 


  • "Time eventually positions must photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art." (Page 21)
    I had chosen this because this had grabbed my attention. The reason why is the word "time". I believe that this was written to clarify to people that at a certain time in life or in the years of this earth, photos can be good to the audience at that time. Like different generations like things that are different from the previous or future generation. Not much people can be into statues, naked photos/paintings, something to do with nature, or how people take portraits. Generation Z is more into photos that are taken today like a time that involves a change in history (Black Lives Matter Movement) or how certain musicians dress. The way photos are taken during a certain time period, skillful or not, it seems to find a way to appease the viewer. 


~Charise Johnson

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