In Plato's Cave Susan Sontag Summary

Content Knowledge: One concept that I understand better now is that Photograph is the world, it captures exactly as it is in that moment. Just like Susan Sontag does in her essay “In Plato's Cave”, as she goes through the many fabrications of what photography exactly is, the good and the bad of it. As I did expand on how I felt Sontag was right when she said “A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened”, and how I felt that when a picture is taken, that event is then immortalized (5). When reading this I realized that photos become immortal, historical and personal. That in which sparked my question on whether personal photographs are deemed worthy of being titled immortal. Using outside sources that connected to perspective and art/photography in general, paved the path I needed to get to my conclusion. That conclusion being that photography is basically a teeter-totter of good and bad, historical and personal. important and unimportant. Always going up in down but never higher than the other, never more important or better or more immortal than each other.
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Not only just outside sources, but adding questions, things I had wondered as I went through information to get to my conclusion. Something I found was that in previous writings, I never asked questions to get me to my answer, my final claim. For example in paragraph two of my essay I asked “But does that make one person's outlooks and beliefs any less valid than another person’s who doesn’t share the same experiences?”, using this to go down the trail, leading me to my final understanding. Although we never asked questions previously, we did use outside sources, using whatever book or essay we had read to give power to the claims we