Sontag cautions us to view photographs with a grain of salt, as she is indeed conscious of the influence they have on our society. Photographs can be altered and lack context, and for this reason they cannot be an entire truth. For this reason, she insists that photographs cannot represent anything of reality. In her essay, she expresses how photographs can be flawed, or the fault being that they’re falsely interpreted. Sontag relates this to the false representation photographs give of the world. Shadows are not the real image, and so he refers to them as false images. Plato’s allegory is about how in the cave, one sees shadows of objects made on the wall by fire. This first essay is called “In Plato’s Cave”, after ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, and his allegory of the cave. This post specifically will be talking about the first chapter, or rather, the first essay, in Sontag’s book, On Photography (Sontag, 2010).
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