“On Photography”
Early in the reading, Sontag describes photographs as, “not acting as statements of the world, but as showing the reality of it.” This is why photographs are immortal: they show the world as it was before. Sontag believes, just as I, that the most efficient means of immortalizing an image is through a book. Putting pictures into frames in your living room or on your office desk serve as something more personal, and will only be preserved for as long as the owner wishes.
As mentioned before, a photograph shows the reality of an event. This is why photographs (at least prior to photo-manipulation) served as evidence or proof of a particular action. Though photography shows the reality of an event, some shots are better than others to show the intention of the event in a more concise fashion. Many photographers would spend days trying to get the perfect shot of, say, a woman's face to show the full extent of the agony or unease she was feeling.
This project relates to that, somewhat. I believe that taking a wide range of photos, even spontaneously, can be productive, but that the collage needs a sort of uniformity and pattern behind it.
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