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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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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1.2 The major literary works of Susan Sontag In Sontag’s life‚ she totally wrote four novels‚ they are "The Benefactor” (1963)‚ “Death Tool"(1967)‚"The Volcano Lover"(1992) and "In the United States" (2000);besides‚ there is one short stories “I ‚ etcetera" and a few scripts. Then she also published eight other works‚ among these works ‚ the famous works are "Against Interpretation" (1966)‚ "The Radical Form of Will" (1969)‚ "On Photography" (1977)‚ "The Disease Metaphor" (1988)‚ "The point" (2001)
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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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physiques are reinforced as ideal to anywhere near the same degree as women. I have long thought it maddening that cultural ideas of beauty are so difficult to overcome. Women are constantly bombarded with what they are to strive for in the name of beauty. Our culture never ceases to reinforce that the ideal figure is that of the hourglass figure‚ that make-up is essential. Tabloids and news sources nearly burst at the seams whenever a celebrity woman is caught in public without the proper amount of make-up
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1. How has photography influenced your life? If photography didn’t exist‚ how would the world be different? What place does photography have in society and in our lives? Photography has influenced my life by ultimately making it more vivid. Seeing candid photos I’ve taken allow me to travel back to that moment and see things exactly as they were. Creative photography can have an effect on my mood and inspire me. It’s nice to look at photographs even if they don’t have any personal significance.
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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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Photography‚ meaning “drawing with lights” in Greek‚ is an art as well as a science of capturing light and storing it on a medium with unprecedented accuracy. Yet‚ up until the late 18th century‚ history was mainly recorded through the techniques of painting and the press. These mediums unarguably contained a certain degree of a truth‚ though‚ it was not uncommon for events‚ such as war to be composed with glorified details‚ or an unfavorable bias from the artist at hand. Beginning in the 1830’s
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