What do you notice?
What details do you notice in each passage? These details should be publically verifiable details NOT opitions. Leave your responses as comments.
#1
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder-a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” (Sontag 197)
#2
“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of the past that is unreal, they also help people take possession of space in which they are insecure” (Sontag 193)
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3 comments:
It looks to me like it's all opinion.... What class is this for?
-Ocelot
Huh????
in #2 she uses the word possesion twice. Is Sontag comparing photographs to control?
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