reading photographs
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Reading Photographs. AP English With quotations from Susan Sontag’s On Photography. “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.” (p. 4). http://photography-now.net/listings/images/stories/users/mapplethorpe012.jpg. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Reading Photographs
AP English
With quotations from Susan Sontag’s On Photography
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“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.” (p. 4)
Atget’s Les Halles
“It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art.” (p. 15)
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Alfred StieglitzThe Steerage1907
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“Photographs furnish evidence.”
(p. 4)
Paul StrandBlind1916
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“There is an aggression
implicit in every use of the
camera.” (p. 7)
Dorothea LangeMigrant Mother;Nipomo, California1936
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“In deciding how their pictures
should look, in preferring one
exposure to another,
photographers are always imposing
standards on their subjects.” (p. 6)
Walker Evans
“After the event has ended, the picture will
still exist, conferring on the event a kind of
immortality (and importance) it would never have enjoyed.”
(p. 11)
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Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967, on the cover of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. http://photography-now.net/listings/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=350&Itemid=249
“’I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it.” – Diane Arbus (p. 12)
"Tank man" during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This photo was taken on June 5, 1989, by Jeff Widener (The Associated Press).www.wikipedia.com
“The ethical content of photographs is fragile.” (p. 21)
Cindy Sherman
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“The ultimate wisdom of the photographic
image is to say: ‘There is the
surface. Now think--or rather
feel, intuit—what is beyond it, what
the reality must be like if it looks this
way.” (p. 23)
Resource:
Sontag, Susan. On Photography. London: Penguin, 1977.
What do you think Sontag would say about photography today?
Explore #488, March 21, 2008
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