Friday, December 3, 2010

Reading Summary/Susan Sontag on Photography

Susan Sontag on Photograpy Summary

- Every thing has been photographed since 1839

- To collect photographs is to collect the world

- Phographs furnish evidence

- The toy of the clever, wealthy, and obsessed

- It seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without a camera along

- Photography became a rite of family life

- Most families with children have at least one camera in their home.

- Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to have fun

- Photography is essentially an act of non-intervention

- Photographs cannot create a moral position, but can reinforce one

- Photographs are valued because they give information

- Today everything exist to end in a photograph

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