Susan Sontag

‘The Camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more then it discloses’ – Susan Sontag. This quote by Sontag can be interpreted in many different ways. To me it shows that there is always something more to what we just see in an image and that there is also a story behind it. It’s almost as if it’s a form of deception and that what you see in a camera lens is never going to be as simple as it looks. This is why I have chosen ‘Dovima with Elephants’ to compare to this quote and fully analyse.

Source?” By: Susan Sontag Classification: Expositive Proof 1: “‘Handsome’ is the masculine equivalent of-and refusal of-a compliment which has accumulated certain demeaning overtones, by being reserved for women only” (Sontag 238). Proof 2: “If a women does real work-and even if she has clambered up to a leading position in politics, law, medicine, business, or whatever - she is always under pressure to confess that she still works at being attractive” (Sontag 239). Explanation: Sontag discusses the

Why is it that we seem to have a strong disconnection between our physical body and mind? It almost seems like there is a continuous battle occurring. Susan Sontag’s essay, “ A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source”, analyzes the modern definition of beauty and explores its consequences for women( ). Sontag compares how beauty is looked upon in both women and men, and leads to conclude that women are pressured to feel obligated to look beautiful on the outside while many forget the importance

In “A Century of Cinema”, Susan Sontag explains how cinema was cherished by those who enjoyed what cinema offered. Cinema was unlike anything else, it was entertainment that had the audience feeling apart of the film. However, as the years went by, the special feeling regarding cinema went away as those who admired cinema wanted to help expand the experience. Although cinema is now a priority, some feel as if cinema is no longer the cinema when it was first established. Movies no longer have that

strange obsession with beauty, so much so, that after the age of nine we are no longer content with our bodies. In the essay A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source the author, Susan Sontag, explains that women feel the need to be perfect, meanwhile men are privileged enough to not feel this need. I agree with Susan Sontag’s statements regarding beauty; and believe that men and women are completely responsible for women’s obsession with beauty. In the essay she also explains the history of how

In a society, social extremes are two opposing views in which an individual lives in an either or lifestyle. This idea was defined by Susan Sontag theory known as “age of extremity” (306). In “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson, Sontag believes we live in “unremitting banality” or “inconceivable terror” with no inbetween. Whereas Nelson believes it’s the “very reiteration of them…[that] act as a truer threat to our enlivenment” (306). This means that it's not the dichotomy, but it's being told by society

Others, Susan Sontag argues that the way people and the media utilizes photographs does not do full justice in representing misfortunes in the world. This can be seen through the emphasis she puts on how everything surrounding the picture effects how the picture is perceived. “It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude”, in other words the photo is not an entity of its own, but influenced by the photographer and excluding context (Sontag 46). The

It is important to first be aware of the concrete definitions of low culture, as defined by Susan Sontag in her “Notes on Camp” (1964) “Low culture is a derogatory term for popular culture and working class culture” A direct opposite to this is high culture, often favoured by the elite. In which Sontag recognises that both “high culture and low culture are minority cultures. The combined influences of both strains constitute mainstream culture”. Before looking at what low culture Pope drew upon to

terminology and metaphors discussed during the AIDS epidemic, many academic scholars such as Susan Sontag view the conversation around AIDS as a plague as counterproductive. This view is clear when reading Sontag’s essay, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphor, where a reader can interpret that nations failings while handling the epidemic was caused by a negative perception of the word plague. Although, Sontag is correct in her assessments of the word plague, she fails to mention that the use of

Photography” written in the 1970’s, author Susan Sontag states that “photographs really are experience captured” and the camera helps us put ourselves into the relation of the photographs. The practice of photography gives us assurance by its accurate relation to reality than any other devices. Sontag sets many insights that still exist in today’s photographic society, but it has been modernized into our generation of photographic technology. 　　 As Sontag asserts that photographs are a tool that