Sontag Reading #1

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BISMCS 343

Sontag Reading Discussion Questions #1

In your respective teams today, please discuss and answer the following questions from On Photography, pages 3-82:

1. How has the invention of photography changed how we perceive, interact, and construe our everyday world?

2. How has this changed with the digital medium, the internet and smart phones (instagram, twitter, etc.) in the past two to three decades?

3. To what degree do we (still) rely on the photograph as evidence today?

4. What is the impact of the proliferation and ubiquity (widespread presence) of photographs, especially today? What is the impact on the creating empathy or fostering taking action?

5. What is Sontag’s view of photographing reality (vs. surrealism), especially of ‘documentarists’?