Regarding the Pain of Others‚ by Susan Sontag In Regarding the Pain of Others‚ Susan Sontag asks the reader to think about how our engagement with a photograph affects our understanding of suffering and war. Sontag evaluates the use of images and the role of photography in representing how the interpretation of images is heavily influenced by context‚ and the effect that these representations have on us. In doing so‚ Sontag addresses a few major questions concerning photography. What is unique
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Though Sontag speaks and disagrees with the form of interpretation of art that can be invoked as a stereotype for art critics/interpreters in the modern world today‚ Aristotle’s representational view of art battles that notion and challenges the view of‚ whether imitational art is a art form in itself‚ or just simply the product of the egos that critics possess in hopes of polishing their appearances as an connoisseur of finding the latent contents in artworks. In “Against Interpretation” Sontag
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Article Summary Sontag‚ Susan. “Regarding the Pain of Others”. Caroline Shrodes‚ et.al‚ Eds. The Conscious Reader. Boston: Longman P. 2012. In Sontags article she is trying to explain why we humans are so interested in pain or violence being brought upon other people to where we find it as being somewhat amusing and are aroused by this occurrence. When we encounter an event of pain and suffering we tend to keep watching and hope the event furthers instead of just looking away. The viewing
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‘To live is to be photographed’ (Sontag‚ 2004). Does photography have a special role in the mediation of our lives‚ and how‚ according to Sontag‚ is this role changing? INTRODUCTION Attempting to comprehend the role of photography in the mediation of our lives would have to account‚ apart from historical evidence‚ an understanding of the importance and the necessity of the photograph in every day life. In a society that is constantly bombarded by images from different mediums
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Photography shows us the world‚ but only the world the photographer creates. According to Sontag‚ photos show that we understand through a photo in the way we see the picture. Seeing photos can limit our understanding because we only see the picture not whats going on around it. In other words the viewer only sees what’s within the frame. Images allowed us to see situations that occurred; however‚ it is extremely limited in what the audience can see. I qualify Sontag’s claim that photography limits
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Susan Sontag an author Regarding The Pain of Others and of four novels‚ and seven non-fiction books. States that "Photographs tend to transform‚ whatever their subject; and as an image something may be beautiful - or terrifying‚ or unbearable‚ or quite bearable - as it is not real life." These words spoken by Susan Sontag explain almost every aspect that goes into evaluating a photograph. For instance a picture
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Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about‚ but doubt‚ seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it. In one version of its utility‚ the camera record incriminates. Starting with their use by the Paris police in the murderous roundup of Communards in June 1871‚ photographs became a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their increasingly mobile populations. In an other version of its utility‚ the camera record jus tifies. A photograph passes for incontrovertible
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Susan Sontag‚ in "Against Interpretation‚" takes a very interesting critical standpoint on the idea of literary interpretation. Unlike most literary critics‚ Sontag believes that literary criticism is growing increasingly destructive towards the very works of art that they‚ supposedly‚ so greatly "appreciate" and "respect." Her standpoint could not be more accurate. Reading her work generates numerous questions‚ the most important of which is quite possibly‚ "How are we to take her final statement
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were assumed to be what we now have to call--lamely‚ enviously--whole person…..beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind” -here she explains how theirs two types of beauty the “inside” beauty and the “outside” beauty. In Susan Sontag informative piece entitled “Beauty” she discusses her logical thoughts of the beauty of a women and a men‚ and of how beauty has changed over the centuries. Susan uses Logical appeals to evoke her philosophy of beauty. She says “The privileges of
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* “A Jellyfish” – Marianne Moore * * How do punctuation and rhythm reinforce meaning in Moore’s “A Jellyfish”? * * Marianne Moore’s “A Jellyfish”‚ displays how punctuation and rhythm can reinforce the overall meaning. The poem contains multiple messages and is deeply symbolic. The literal message is visualizing the jellyfish’s fluid movements through water. Also‚ its qualities can relate to the “[fluctuations]” (Moore 2) a person can endure in a lifetime. The rhythm of the poem
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