No More Worries!

Our orders are delivered strictly on time without delay

Paper Formatting

Our orders are delivered strictly on time without delay

The first essay in the collection, "In Plato's Cave," uses Plato's notion that human beings see the world around them as if they were trapped in a cave with only projected shadows to represent the world. All they can know is what they see in the cave: an indistinct representation. Reality exists outside the cave, but people inside the cave cannot connect with it.
What connection does Sontag make with this notion and photography?
Sontag writes: "Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it. In one version of its utility, the camera record incriminates. Starting with their use by the Paris police in the murderous roundup of Communards in June 1871, photographs became a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their increasingly mobile populations."
Do photographs show incontrovertible evidence that something exists or something happened? In the chapter what parameters does she draw to demonstrate the relationship of photographic practice to what is real?
The shock of photographed atrocities, Sontag says, "wears off with repeated viewings." Do you think this is true? What is Sontag's argument from the chapter for this phenomenon?
Sontag says that photography "makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is." Do you think she is correct in this assertion? Give an example of photography she cites in the chapter that backs up her thesis.