Often, they ask things like, “take a picture of my finger,” or “take a picture of my sketchbook,” and then peer over as I do, trying to both watch and be watched. There is a constant, “Can I see it? Can I try?” With little hands reaching for my device to pull the bright screen closer to their face. I was thinking about when I pull my camera or cell phone camera out at the day care center, and it becomes this phenomena. This really struck me for how it touches on why we are intrigued by photographs. Photographs really are the experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.” (p. “Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Now, in terms of my work, ideas or quotes that I really related to are listed and reflected upon below: J However, she also addresses that while photographs become “pieces of the world,” they are also just as simply interpretations of it, because in the end, the photographer’s decisions change the context of the image managed to be captured. I loved her idea that part of what drives us to photograph is the need to remember and collect images in our head, that, ““To collect images is to collect the world” (p.4). I agree that photography is a wild phenomenon, and remains interesting because it is really the only medium that lets us attempt to take ownership of time and space. The battle between the truth in photographs isn’t a new one, but I like the chapter for its expansive explanation as to the why the author thinks “we” (people) take photographs. It is interesting to compare our viewing and understanding of producing photographs to the ideas in Plato’s Cave (that prisoners chained to a wall who can only see shadows interpret them as real). I think it is clever that Susan Sontag’s title draws the idea of mixed realities into the understanding of photography, as she frequently develops comments in the chapter regarding the mysterious quality of photographs that allows them to take a piece of time and freeze it, as well as our mysterious relationship to them, or why we use them and how. First off, I think the title of Susan Sontag’s chapter is interesting take on the relationship between the story or message of Plato’s cave and photography, given what I remember about the story.
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