In this writing, Susan Sontag discusses the statement, “To collect photographs is to collect the world”. She states that photographs are experiences captured, and just about anything and everything since the photograph was invented in 1839 has been. She makes note that when one is photographing something, that person is putting himself or herself into a certain relation with the subject matter. It is interesting that she noted this is also how humans today relate to the past to progress to the present. Photographs are the most realistic form of freezing and capturing time in a single document. She also talks about how the photograph is a form of evidence of something that has indeed happened in the past.
Sontag concludes with saying that the photograph has evolved from a type of documentation to a form of artistic activity, which I personally 100% agree with. It can be used for a variety of things, and is an important skill for all to process. I use photography to document something of importance, a happy time taking place, or for artistic purposes as we have just demonstrated though this assignment.
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