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SMA Conversation Essay, Photography actually being a very bias…
SMA Conversation Essay
Dishonest/Misleading
Hooks
“Such is the power of photography, of the image, that it can give back and take away, that it can bind.”
“I loved this snapshot of myself because it was the only image available to me that gave me a sense of presence, of girlhood beauty and capacity for pleasure. It was an image of myself I could genuinely like. “
“The camera captured me in my cowgirl outfit, white ruffled blouse, vest, fringed skirt, my one gun and my boots. In this image I became all that I wanted to be in my imagination.”
“Losing that snapshot, I lost proof of my worthiness”
Berger
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“Hence the necessity of our understanding a weapon which we can use and which can be used against us.”
Sontag
“In deciding how a picture should look, in preferring one exposure to another, photographers are always imposing standards on their subjects.” (6)
Exclusionary
Berger
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“A photograph, whilst recording what has been seen, always and by its nature refers to what is not seen.”
Cole
“Originality, always hard to come by, is getting harder.”
“His photograph partly serves the narrative chosen by the Forum’s custodians. The visitor is inadvertently mesmerized not only by the site but also by the municipal or museological organization of the experience of the site.”
“We think we are moving through the world, while the whole time the world is pulling us along, telling us where to walk, where to stop, where to take a photo.”
Objectifying
Sontag
“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 people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.” (14)
“The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance. The lover’s photograph hidden in a married woman’s wallet, the poster photograph of a rock star tacked up over an adolescent’s bed, the campaign-button image of a politician’s face pinned on a voter’s coat, the snapshots of a cabdriver's children clipped to the visor–all such talismanic uses of photographs express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical:they are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality.” (16)
Berger
“The very principle of photography is that the resulting image is not unique, but on the contrary infinitely reproducible.”
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Power of photos to create images, aspirations, ideal perceptions of selves and others
Photos being unoriginal, generic
Photos tell us what's worth seeing: what's attractive, what's aspirational, in other words, White, ripped, rich
Therefore, implication that what isn't seen isn't worth while: people of color, everyday people, non-glamourous life styles
Objectifying, Commodifying people's bodies and image
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