HCOLL: Photography and Society
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Nil Santana
Very interesting text, and questions. Indeed, there are many ways…
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Becca Fullerton
Sontag made two points which I found really interesting. The f…
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Becca Fullerton
http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1…
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Becca Fullerton
This site links to a work of young adult fiction that I thought m…
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Kaitlyn Wilkins
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/…
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Kaitlyn Wilkins
I think this is an interesting way of raising awareness while par…
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Michelle Cornell
In her interview, Sontag provides an interesting perspective on t…
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Michelle Cornell
Also, this comment was supposed to be in response to Mary’s earli…
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Michelle Cornell
Mary, her comment on the camera being the most important inventio…
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Nil Santana
That’s right Sara — an excellent book, relevant to our discussio…
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Juliana Kocsis
I’ve heard of Camera Lucida but never really explored it–those t…
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Juliana Kocsis
Jordan, I think that’s an interesting and very apt assessment …
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Sara Shoultz
I also thought this link might be relevant to our discussion of S…
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Sara Shoultz
Sontag raised several intriguing points in her interview with Mov…
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Mary Delaughter
Jordan, There is so much truth in this! I think of the past wh…
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Nil Santana
Well, it is also interesting to investigate how photography is in…
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Nil Santana
Absolutely! In many ways, photography is at play within those dua…
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Nil Santana
Thanks for the link, Leah. Check out the link below when you have…
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Leah Rama
Random additional link… This is a link to a photo collection f…
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Leah Rama
Juliana, I liked the way to tied in the “linearity” versus “an…
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Kaitlyn Wilkins
I think it is interesting to read Sontag’s comparison of the Chin…
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Nicholas Hill
“Americans, if they ever think about the past, are not interested…
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Nicholas Hill
Wow, Leah, way to sum up our generation! We seem to be so disillu…
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Jordan Havens
I definitely agree with your last sentiment. I think, although p…
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Jordan Havens
“When [people] report an interesting event, their accounts freq…
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Nil Santana
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34 Commentsby Nil Santana | 01.21.12 | Assignments
Follow the link below, and read this intriguing conversation (interview) between Susan Sontag and Geoffrey Movius. Sontag was an American essayist, literary and cultural theorist, icon, political activist, writer, and critic. She intensely wrote about photography.
http://bostonreview.net/BR01.1/sontag.html
Based on our discussions in class, and after reading the interview, voice your opinion on how you see the influences of photography in society and culture.
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