Susan Sontag

Heather Hansen’s work entitled Emptied Gestures was an experimental project focused on kinetic drawing in which she combined visual art and dance. They are artworks made from charcoals drawn on large paper canvases and she uses her own body to create the illustration she has in her head. In an article by Hannah Edwards, Hansen says, “Emptied Gestures is an experiment in kinetic drawing. In this series, I am searching for ways to download my movement directly onto paper, emptying gestures from one

cruelty of mankind. In her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag asks, "What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?" To acknowledge suffering is just to capture it, to point it out and show somebody else that it exists. In order to protest suffering, there has to be some sort of moral decision that what is shown in the photograph is wrong, and a want from the viewer to change that. Sontag says that throughout history, things focused on in art and history

Kaitlyn McKenzie The Violence of Being Human Essay #2 6/24/15 A picture’s worth 1,000 words Does a picture say more than a video? A writer both gains and loses leverage over the message of feeling he or she is trying to convey. Most humans would argue different things. Some would say they conceive more from a picture because of their ability to use their imagination and challenge themselves to a greater level. Others would argue that they appreciate more from a video because they are left without

enjoyed. We are able to reminisce in those events, every single time we look at those picture. Especially since photographs give us a full on visual description on what everyone in the photo wore and the background. In the book, On Photography, by Susan Sontag, she explains how photograph is both an object and a tool and how its utility changes depending on context and intentions of oneself. Not only are photographs a physical object, it gives us a way to visualize a captured moment. Before social media

Author, Susan Sontag compares and contrasts how women and men are depicted in the media, photography and in the general society of the world. She begins by asking her readers to consider to visually produce a photography book compiled of images of everyday women and also to visualize how the images would be composed. Susan Sontag continues by explaining women are minorities in all categories with an exception of population and are depicted differently by the media, as well as, scrutinized differently

Susan Sontag discusses the difference in viewing art in physical form versus viewing in through a lens. Throughout the essay “In Plato’s Cave”, Sontag thinks both Plato’s cave images and photographs represents, “the mere image of truth” (Sontag 3). With that, Sontag repeatedly uses the terms “truth” and “reality”, but does not define what these terms mean to her. The impression Sontag left for these terms is that “truth” or “reality” stand for nothing more than what we can see. Being said, the difference

steady progression has molded reality. The book On Photography by Susan Sontag, is a book of many ideologies and aspects. The main aspect of this book is how pure reality is being captured through photography. Through history, reality has been associated with images and philosophers who have subsequently diminished our trust on representations by directing our eyes at ways to grasp reality through paintings and images. Susan Sontag says that in the modern day and age, we prefer to take photographs

due to the fact that multiple people can look at it and create their own understanding of the picture itself and the meaning behind it all. In the essay On Photography the author, Susan Sontag, clearly states that fully understanding a photo is nearly impossible for anyone to do. For most of her argument I support Sontag on her argument towards photographs, but there are some ideas she has that I can disagree with. There are many different ways on how to capture a photograph and portray its meaning

Writing Assignment 4 Mankind, argues Susan Sontag "In Plato's Cave" in her collections of articles "On Photography", is still in Plato's cave. Photography changes are states of detainment and make a sort of "morals of vision" and the inclination that we can contain the entire world in our heads. Gathering photos, Sontag Argues that it is the same as gathering to the world. Photos are ancient rarities, which make and gather the environment that we see to be current. She contends that capturing something

In 1972, sociologist Susan Sontag wrote an essay regarding, what she called, ‘The Double Standards of Ageing’. The phrase ‘double standards’ refers to a rule or principle that is unfairly applied to different people. In her essay, Sontag’s 'double standards' refers to older men and women and the inequality that appears to come with ageing, showing how some principles only affects one gender and not the other. There are several different types of double standards regarding older men and women mainly