Susan Sontag presents many valid and useful points throughout her article about the current use of photography in todays world, and how it has changed and evolved from past times. We now have the option to choose what we pay attention to and notice, considering everything has been photographed by someone, somehow. There are hundreds of millions of random photos taken of everything you could possible think of, and we are able to find them at a click of a mouse.
Sontag believes that photographs are one of the most truthful pieces of our world that we are able to process. However, I don’t completely agree with this. In many ways, and even more in the past, this is true. However, photographs are so easily manipulated nowadays, it is almost impossible to be able to determine if a photo has been manipulated or not.
Susan Sontag brings to life the idea that photographs “furnish evidence.” Which at one time would hold very true. However, with out ability to so easily manipulate photos, the photographers validity is called into questions. This curse and blessing of photo manipulation has given a whole new outlook of photographs and photographers. It has almost become that painting and drawings are the truest interpretation of the world
around us.
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