1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes‚ William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”‚ that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues‚ their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations‚ Americans who were too hot‚ or too cold‚ got up and did something about it”. Although there were many
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Between Photography and Power The word power is used in various ways in today’s society. Dictionary.com defines power as‚ the ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something. The word power is repeated frequently in Sontag’s essay. Most often‚ power is expressed in multiple ways and in Sontag’s view photographs may be the most important. The relationship between photography and power can be weaved together to make a variety of opinions. Sontag’s view of photography is not
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concept of framing and representation In Plato’s Cave‚ and Barthes idea of posing and theater in Camera Lucida. Sontag and Barthes’s understandings of photography’s “reality” intersect in that their notion of the object in photography being real and not real. Thus it is interesting to note the relationship between Milgram with Barthes and Sontag in terms of their ideas on photography and his experiment. The facilitator and the learner staging of the experiment distance
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themes that are present in Philadelphia that not only happened in the past but that are still happening in today’s society Before connecting Susan’s Sontag interview to our class material‚ I will quickly summarize the plot. “AIDS and it Metaphor” is told through an interview from YouTube‚
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Photography Photography is an art form like drawing and painting. The word photography is a noun‚ derived from the Greek phot- for "light" and -graphos for "drawing“‚ together meaning "drawing with light“. Photographers use their camera to make us see life in a different way‚ feel emotions‚ and record stories and events. On 1834‚ in Campinas‚ Brazil‚ Hercules Florence‚ a French painter and inventor‚ wrote in his diary the word "photographie" to describe his process. But on March 14‚
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his interest. However‚ the idea of sharing of graphing pictures is called into question by Susan Sontag in her essay‚ “Regarding the Pain of Others‚” who points out that war photography should have some form of censorship because of the effect it may have on victims or families who have lost their loved ones. While Berger doesn’t seem to promote graphic photography‚ it seems that from his point of view‚ pictures such as these make a reality of what otherwise
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intentional‚ they express thoughts. Given that photographs are created in a mechanical fashion‚ says Scruton‚ they cannot express thoughts and photography therefore cannot be a representational art. “Literature and painting represent things‚ not by copying them‚ but by expressing thoughts about them…” (Scruton) In another of his papers on the same theme‚ ‘Photography and Representation‚’ Scruton argues that the only way in which we can be interested in a photograph is if that photograph acts as a kind
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Plato’s allegory of the cave. The allegory reflects the idea of deception wherein cave prisoners learn and discover shadows of objects from the fire casted inside the cave‚ making them see and mislabel these images. Sontag argued that just like paintings and illustrations‚ photography gives us an incomplete representation to the world‚ which will likely to be falsely interpreted. Despite providing an “anthology of images”‚ photographs give us miniatures and glimpses of reality about the world (1)
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Photography Taking pictures is the world’s most popular hobby. We use it to document family milestones‚ capture beauty‚ reveal the ugliness of war‚ and stalk celebrities. Photography has changed the world way more than any other thing in the media (because photography is used in film and television). Our world no longer has its focus on words and paintings‚ but now it is focused on the photograph. There are several effects on how photography has changed the world: the civil war‚ social network
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Susan Sontag’s claim it is clear that photography limits people’s interpretation of the world. This claim I false because pictures rang from people in complete destitution as seen by photos of Jacob Riis to people having a good time on vacation. Because of this diverse collection of pictures‚ people see the world as it is instead of "more than it really is". This is seen through actions of Hitler various world events such the Vietnam War and the Kent State incident as well as literature like The
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