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Essay / Photography: a perspective on power - 1163
Some of Sontag's comments concern Barthes and Benjamin. Modernism was a term they used to modify and hide the social and natural uses of photography. Sontag is closer to Barthes in the fact that photography is always most often a representation of something. It has to do with ethics. Along with how photography is growing and becoming more industrial with technology. 9. Sontag titled the article as she did because Plato's Cave is said to symbolize the reflection of Plato. Sontag's article shows how wrong it is when compared to the world. This was due to the idea that the photographs were being interpreted. Allegory of Plato, with the prisoners in the cave who are capable of projecting shadows thanks to the glow of the fire. However, cast shadows are considered false images of reality. Sontag believed that photographs were actually just false images of reality. 10. There are a few questions I would like to know more about. Starting with the idea of Plato's Cave and how important it was at that time to Plato's Cave. I would also like to know if she wrote and thought from a more modernist/futurist understanding. I didn't agree with how she said they would have experienced their past removed and that was supposed to happen if you lived in this certain society. He then recounts how the photographs were used as souvenirs of