In other words, Sontag believes that the photograph that is taken will always be.

‘A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves’ – Washington Post. In Sontags view, To collect photographs is to collect the world (Sontag 3). ‘Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites’- The Times. While photographs seems like reality, they are actually more like paintings: they don’t reflect reality, they reflect the real, or the interpretation of reality that their photographer has shaped and captured. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. Sontag’s essays on photography revolve around the question of what photography is, and what it does. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Photographs are everywhere, and the ‘insatiability of the photographing eye’ has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Susan Sontag, On Photography tags: hobbesian-man, photography, susan-sontag 28 likes Like All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Her true concerns over photography featured a Marxist edge. Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.

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