“In Plato’s Cave” Response

Sontag first talks about what is seen as either real or not real in Plato’s Cave, which relates to how photography can present things accurately, as they really are, or not. Later, Sontag describes how even when photographs are accurate portrayals of real places or events, they don’t tell the whole story. We are simply lead to construct a narrative in our own heads. This is something that I don’t think people always realize. So much can be shown and felt through a photograph, but there is also so much more that is missing. Two people could see the same photograph and interpret it very differently depending on the context in which he or she saw it. I saw this to be true in critiquing our Narrative shots. People had many different interpretations of the same image and could imagine a variety of stories to connect the images.

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