is taken and forever revitalized. Photography takes the essence of memory and seals it into the history of those involved in the process. Susan Sontag’s didactic text “On Photography” digs deep into the meaning of photography and claims that it has unlimited power within modern society. Her exclamation that “cameras are fantasy-machines” exerts the idea that photography brings the world closer together‚ yet seems so distant as if it were all but an illusion. Sontag starts off her text by asserting
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in the ocean with the ominous feeling of the gloomy clouds surrounding every corner of the photograph. Photography is a basis of knowledge to shed light upon what we know today. We are surrounded by it in our daily lives‚ but do we really see everything that lies behind a photograph? Photos capture memories and remind us of good times in our lives. However‚ today‚ society has turned photography from a tool to capture a memory into a device that is used by anyone who has an expensive camera or even
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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‚ photography has transformed
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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 about photography and representation
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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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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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When comparing the descriptive technique of Susan Sontag’s On Photography book between ALL MY LIFE FOR SALE by John D. Freyer and eBay‚ we will find that Mr. Freyer demonstrated a merely subjective description that was mentored solely by his own point of view. The assumption that “every photographer should read this book” in the beginning of his description‚ and asserting this assumption later by using an overstated sentence like: “Even the mom and pop photographers”‚ and further emphasizing by generalizing
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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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Tourism is a good representation for photography. Every year people travel away from their homes‚ breaking their daily routines to visit other locations. It is almost unnatural to go on vacation without a camera. Tourists snap pictures of everything to record and prove that they have been to some location. These pictures serve as memories later for the tourists. Photography and tourism are in a sense intertwined. Photography is the mechanism by which tourism can be documented. Photographs play
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MODULE NAME : Digital Photography BCT1403 Module Details Course Location : LUCT Cyberjaya Unit Controller/Examiner : (Hafiz Safwan) Co-examiner : (Hafiz Safwan) Pre-requisite : (nil) Co-requisite : (nil) Credits : (4) Contact hours : (4 per week) No. of weeks : 14 + 1 weeks No. of assignments : 2 Portfolio : 4 assignments + 1 Folio Presentation Venue : TBA Day : TBA Time : TBA Prepared by : (Hafiz Safwan) Checked by : (
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