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    perspective. Photography has made me more aware. I’ve discovered how to use my eyes. I love it when I am shooting an image and the magic moment presents itself. I imagine myself as a hunter, searching for the perfect light and angle that makes the photograph come together. I'm always searching for the perfect picture. From the little things that would be good macro shots, to the people that would make nice portraits, or to the landscapes when the sun is just right. For example, I had taken a…

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    was I born in that area, but if you were ask me what a concentration camp look like I could get a rough image. Why is that? Photographs has create prototypes in our head of what a concentration camp might look like any many more things. Sontag effectively explain the importance of illustration in photography. Sontag talks about how “the illustrative function of photographs leave opinions, prejudices, fantasies, misinformation untouched.” (654.) By this she means that the function of illustrate…

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    In her essay, “In Plato’s Cave,” published in 1977, Susan Sontag reflects on photography and looks at the meaning behind taking a photograph. Throughout her essay, Sontag makes important observations based on the broad world of photography. The observations she concludes warns her readers to be careful in how they view or interpret images. It’s not the image that does the interpreting…

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    Portrait Gallery of Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 accurately depicts the psychological inner life an individual and the constraining forces that make them into the individual portrayed in the image. The exhibition displays 43 photographs from photographers around Australia, the collections representing modern Australian youth culture and the issues and beliefs that shape its own identity in a bravely optimistic manner. The works of Filomena Rizz and Laura Sikes if not…

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    Visualizing A Photo Essay

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    cherish more than anything else. Now think about that without visualizing a photograph. Unless it was an extremely private moment, you had to dig past the memory of a photograph in your head in order to find a memory. That is because photographs do a great portion of our remembering for us, which is both good and bad. A photo can mean an endless amount of completely unique things to any individual. Whenever I think of a photograph, depending on what is pictured, I could have a memory of an event…

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    photography is that the painted subject need not exist at any point in time, whereas in photography he says that the subject must at some point in time have existed and appeared approximately as it does in the photograph (Scruton 579). Scruton utilizes a good example of this saying, “if one finds a photograph beautiful, it is because one finds something beautiful in the subject. A painting may be beautiful, on the other hand, even when it represents an ugly thing” (Scruton…

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    Page 1 We often think of a photograph as a two-dimensional image. Scholars like #### #### argue that photos need to be conceptualised as material objects, three-dimensional objects. Photographs taken within the private setting often have intangible linkages like affection and memories associated with them. Throughout the history of photography, images have…

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    of the potential power that a photograph has to convince someone. However, images such as those of veterans meeting their relatives in tears use emotional appeal to convince their viewers so those viewers are far more likely to agree with the message behind the photo. What makes those images so powerful? And why does it matter that those images have such power? While photographs may seem harmless, it can be used to trick us easily without us knowing. Photographs have a powerful impact on how…

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    Sontag On Photography

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    makes it possible for humans to share these moments with others. But more times than not, these moments, visions, photographs are altered, manipulated, and distorted to influence, and change the audience’s view. By analyzing the many methods the photographer manipulates, alters, and their distortion of the truth of their works, it is suggested that the concealed sincerity of a photograph is frequently overpassed and corrupted in order to adjust the impressions of public to prompt what the…

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    the fake food which is impossible to obtain. However, people don’t realize this creates walls, which people hide behind because they’re afraid of their true self. By looking at Susan Sontag’s article “On Photography” people can see that making photographs to perfection is insignificant through her statement that “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire” (34). The fact that anyone can make an…

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