Tag: Susan Sontag
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Taking vs Making
A topic that came up “on the side” during this weeks reading and discussions, was the notion of “taking” a photograph. In the presentation that kicked off our first module, this is passed over briefly as a logical rejoinder to Susan Sontag’s idea of photography-as-violation. Put oversimply: if photographs are taken, then it’s logical that…
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Reflections on Windows and Mirrors
“In metaphorical terms, the photograph is seen either as a mirror — a romantic expression of the photographer’s sensibility as it projects itself on the things and sights of this world; or as a window — through which the exterior world is explored in all its presence and reality.” Szarkowski, 1978: 2 I find Szarowski’s…