Susan sontag on photography plato's cave6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() It will always be a knowledge at bargain prices- a semblance of knowledge, a semblance of wisdom: as the act of taking pictures is a semblance of appropriation, a semblance of rape.” (Sontag 24). “The knowledge gained through still photographs will always be some sort of sentimentalism, whether cynical or humanist. “Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked out.” (Sontag, 4) However Sontag goes onto describe how photographs can so easily be edited. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it.” (Sontag, 5) This also highlights that photography has become a powerful tool in providing evidence in certain cases. “To collect photographs, is to collect the world.” (Sontag, 3) This is the first piece of information that stood out to me in this particular text, since Photography was invented in 1839, people have been capturing their own experiences of anything and everything for many years over many historical and poignant time periods. ![]() As part of my wider research for this portfolio, I read up on “In Plato’s Cave” a specific chapter from the book On Photography by Susan Sontag. ![]()
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