George Wyche Essays (209 words) - Ancient Greek Philosophy

George Wyche Susan Sontag In Plato's Cave from the book: On Photography Within this paper is a different outlook on photography, Susan in her thesis statement proposes that when piled up into a film that the photos themselves lose their collectable aspect rather than if they were compiled together in a book. She later states that looking a one single image holds a visual tangibility and has a big emotional impact as well. Susan brings up David Hill and Julia Cameron who took photos in the min set that they were capturing paintings but in a broader spectrum so that they could include a larger number of subjects. Susan includes a lot about the history of physicality of actually taking an image. In the early days there weren't per say professional photographers, so people had to invent the rules and figure things out for themselves. She concludes with saying that in todays age that photography has progressed so much that everything is in picture form. I agree with the old form of picture taking, that it was laborious and took thought and directive to captur e art. I love the rawness of it and I try to convey the old ways of picture taking in my art and the pictures that I take.