Artistic Ability

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anywhere and take pictures within a second. If you mess up taking a picture, you can simply delete it and retake another one. It seems like there is not much imagination required in this day in age to capture an image on camera.
I agree with what Sontag says, “What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire” (pg. 4). In my opinion, photographs are snap shots of a piece of reality. For example, when I was taking a geography course, there were tons of pictures of different countries and different contexts within the text book. I was inspired to go visit some of the countries to see the whole reality of that one image that was in the textbook.
Images nowadays are being used as a money-maker. Photographers will misconstrue images to make a buck ...

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practiced an amusement as sex and dancing-which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defence against anxiety, and a tool of power” (pg. 8). I agree with what Sontag says. I have travelled Japan. When I went there, I wanted to take all sorts of pictures. Instead of absorbing the culture there, I hid behind the camera taking tons of pictures. It became my security net. I also see photography being used as a powerful tool in this world. Sontag states, “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have, it turns ...

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