Photography from Sally Mann is a debatable subject of where the line is for photography as art. In her famous photo Fallen Child, she takes a photo of her naked daughter lying on side in the grass (Mann, “Fallen Child.”). This has become controversial because some of her audience see it as child pornography as others see it as another technic of expression through photography. Her audience begin to conceder her intentions. Sontag is able to point out the source of division between the two groups from Mann’s audience by affirming, “The frustration of not being able to do anything about what the imagines show” (Sontag, “Watching Suffering from a Distance”). The audience of a picture doesn’t have any direct effect on the event that the photo captures. After that initial idea of the image impacts the audience they begin to further analyze the photo. An audience of a photo is subject to evaluating the images content promoting their thought process of
Photography from Sally Mann is a debatable subject of where the line is for photography as art. In her famous photo Fallen Child, she takes a photo of her naked daughter lying on side in the grass (Mann, “Fallen Child.”). This has become controversial because some of her audience see it as child pornography as others see it as another technic of expression through photography. Her audience begin to conceder her intentions. Sontag is able to point out the source of division between the two groups from Mann’s audience by affirming, “The frustration of not being able to do anything about what the imagines show” (Sontag, “Watching Suffering from a Distance”). The audience of a picture doesn’t have any direct effect on the event that the photo captures. After that initial idea of the image impacts the audience they begin to further analyze the photo. An audience of a photo is subject to evaluating the images content promoting their thought process of