Susan Sontag

understanding of the human experience plays an extremely significant part in my work specifically in this series. In “Notes on Camp”, Susan Sontag “Something is good not because it is achieved, but because another kind of truth about the human situation, another experience of what it is to be human - in short, another valid sensibility -- is being revealed.” Sontag writes about sensibilities in art, three impartial, one of which she writes that this sensibility “gains power by a tension between…

The two authors have similarities and differences in their views about war images; some contrast, when they argued about the morality and reason behind war images; some are parallel, as how both Berger and Sontag claim that it is crucial that people are apprised of the pain and suffering that was experienced during the war; and some just complicate each others’ argument, when they each discuss the myriad of effects that war images have created. Berger elaborates…

seems to dictate that choosing a future of nuclear Armageddon is nothing but a daft decision. However, in Susan Sontag’s essay “The Imagination of Disaster,” she discusses the influence of people’s attitudes toward annihilation, and how individuals can be indifferent to the end of the world. Although people strive for steady utopia, I claim that it is human nature to desire…

productively acknowledging the reality is an act of ignorance. This problematic approach is addressed in the novels Illness as Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphor by the American author Susan Sontag. Sontag critiqued how speaking of an illness metaphorically has many negative consequences to people’s afflicted with the condition. Sontag noticed that, “Subjects of deepest dreads (corruption, decay, weakness) are identified with the…

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…

“Regarding the Pain of Others” by Susan Sontag, it is an essay about the manipulation and functions of photography. Sontag goes through many functions of photography. Sontag starts off with beautifying. According to Sontag beautifying is, “ classic operation of the camera, and it tends to bleach out a moral response to what is shown.” (653). In others words Sontag means beautifying makes photo appear better than the actuality of the image. Uglifying according to Sontag is “showing something at…

This essay will summarize Susan Sontag’s ideas concerning how beauty is seen in today’s modern culture and the consequences that these views have toward women, by using Susan Sontag’s vivid examples and definitions found in both “A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source” and “An Argument About Beauty”. Next, I will argue in support of most of her key points; however, I will also argue against some of the points presented in the essay. For example, I agree with her assertion that in todays…

Wabi Sabi: The Beauty of Imperfection In her essay, “An argument about beauty”, Susan Sontag implies we look past blemishes and imperfections. Sontag references “…scratches… in the surface of an Old Master painting…”(Sontag, 1), something she says we “…reflexively screen out or see past” (Sontag, 1). It seems obvious that Sontag finds these imperfections distasteful and unworthy of attention. However, this idea of ignoring an interruption of the expected landscape for the sake of enjoying the…

Discussion starter: February 22nd, 2018. Key Claim for Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others; (Ch. 2) 1. Conscientiousness to global struggles is merely a fad; it swells briefly but its impact ripples and often dissipates from the forefront of the audience’s minds. (pp 19-20) 2. Due to the relentless imagery that permeates our lives, the power to readily and better capture our attention lies in the ‘shock factor’. A photograph’s ability to still a moment and stimulate our senses is its…

and how they reflected the violence that was exhibited during war. By providing the reader with these examples, Sontag set up a basis for her argument that pictures can greatly influence how a person perceives violence that they could not witness firsthand. Through visual proof, the atrocity of the violence can be conveyed on a greater scale, where there is no language barrier (Sontag 20). However, while visual evidence has its own authenticity, without any further explanation, it can be…