Surface Tensions by Judith Butler is about a series of photographs that seemed to go against the norms at the time that they were taken. Butler says “we are not supposed to make into visual spectacles human bodies that are stigmatized within public life or to treat them as objects available for visual consumption”. This is what the photographs did. A lot of the photographs featured scenes of people without making them look particularly beautiful in any way. This itself goes against the norms of what art is usually seen as. These photos were presented in a way that the audience should not have found visually pleasing. Butler also says “ Arbus’s camera works a bit like those pins, probing and piercing a surface that will not yield”. This was interesting as pins are seen as sharp objects. Normally, if someone pricks another person with a pin, it is with the intention to do harm. However, these photographs do not seem to be particularly harmful, it was just trying to present people in a way that was not objectifying, which is what it seems like a lot of media seems to do. This article could be connected to imagination because with photography, you often have to have an imagination of some sort, especially with the type of photos being mentioned.