Triangulation - Blog Task 1.

         Review the text you were given.

-           First Essay – Technology and Media have improved.

-           Second Essay – Diane Arbus – Allowing the ugly to become beautiful within Photography.

-           Third Essay – Surrealism.

-           Fourth Essay – Photography becoming a mass art.

-           Final Essay – Reality in the modern Society.

In the first essay by Sontag, she describes how Photographs have become a way of life. We use them in everyday for more personal reasons, such as weddings and holiday photos.

She goes on to explain how photography is influencing people’s views on Politics.

Also, how the camera is being used to make the world appear more beautiful through images. She concludes that photography has become more lenient in the way that anybody can take a photograph in today’s diverse society, not just the rich and wealthy.

In the second essay – ‘America, seen through photographs, darkly’ Sontag illustrates how America seem to have shifted from photographing beautiful aesthetically pleasing subjects, to appalling and inhuman subjects. For this approach on photography, Arbus became a famous photographer, exposing the world to the unseen America.

In the third essay – ‘Melancholy objects’ – Sontag starts to express her views on Surrealism ‘surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower, but more dramatic than the one perceived by natural vision’. She suggest that if you dare to explore with Surrealism you will reap the rewards and create a particular view on something ordinary you will attract more attention and viewers eyes, because it is new and unseen.

In the fourth essay ‘The heroism of Vision’ Sontag goes on to talk about how photography is becoming a mass art. It removes the real and replaces it with the photographic, becoming accessible to all it interests.

In the final essay, Photographic evangels, Sontag suggests that Photography shares some properties with fine art. This has led to a continuous stream of images, photographers becoming individuals in their art and expressing themselves. It suggests that for as long as photographers are expressing themselves and their own thoughts and feelings, the continuous stream of images shall continue.