The Beauty of a Photo
In Nora Ephron’s “The Boston Photographs” story and Geoff Dyer’s “The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs” article, both make multiple claims about photography and how pictures need to be exposed. Seeing photography in the way it was captured from the photography’s eyes is important and shouldn’t be censored.
Overall, through both Nora Ephron’s story and Geoff Dyer’s article, the ultimate claim they’re overarching throughout is, whether the photo taken is staged or not, they are a part of history, as it captures history. I agree with this claim. Not only is history made by the people but also by capturing it to say the event happened. In Nora Ephron’s story, she makes a statement about the photos taken during the Boston fire, “They deserve to be printed because they are great pictures, breathtaking pictures of something that happened. That they disturb readers is exactly as it should be; that’s why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism”. She believes that the photos taken were great and breathtaking pictures of something that happened. Her real argument is the pictures of something that happened is what’s important here. She also explains why photojournalism is important because her photos made her audience disturbed because …show more content…
In the last paragraph of her article, she begins to speak on photos captured and feelings associated with it but ultimately what the picture is. “A picture of history – a moment in history – and of fate, it is documentary evidence of the unknowable.”. A picture of history can be of anything, the moment in history can be anything, the fate of the photo is everything. A photo can say a thousand words, but to the viewers that see it may not know what it really captures. Whether someone believes it is historical or not, it is documentary evidence and that’s what’s the main idea and claim she is making
In Nora Ephron’s “The Boston Photographs” story and Geoff Dyer’s “The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs” article, both make multiple claims about photography and how pictures need to be exposed. Seeing photography in the way it was captured from the photography’s eyes is important and shouldn’t be censored.
Overall, through both Nora Ephron’s story and Geoff Dyer’s article, the ultimate claim they’re overarching throughout is, whether the photo taken is staged or not, they are a part of history, as it captures history. I agree with this claim. Not only is history made by the people but also by capturing it to say the event happened. In Nora Ephron’s story, she makes a statement about the photos taken during the Boston fire, “They deserve to be printed because they are great pictures, breathtaking pictures of something that happened. That they disturb readers is exactly as it should be; that’s why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism”. She believes that the photos taken were great and breathtaking pictures of something that happened. Her real argument is the pictures of something that happened is what’s important here. She also explains why photojournalism is important because her photos made her audience disturbed because …show more content…
In the last paragraph of her article, she begins to speak on photos captured and feelings associated with it but ultimately what the picture is. “A picture of history – a moment in history – and of fate, it is documentary evidence of the unknowable.”. A picture of history can be of anything, the moment in history can be anything, the fate of the photo is everything. A photo can say a thousand words, but to the viewers that see it may not know what it really captures. Whether someone believes it is historical or not, it is documentary evidence and that’s what’s the main idea and claim she is making