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Reading Photographs

Reading Photographs. AP English With quotations from Susan Sontag’s On Photography. “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.” (p. 4). http://photography-now.net/listings/images/stories/users/mapplethorpe012.jpg.

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Reading Photographs

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  1. Reading Photographs AP English With quotations from Susan Sontag’s On Photography

  2. “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.” (p. 4) http://photography-now.net/listings/images/stories/users/mapplethorpe012.jpg

  3. “It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art.” (p. 15) Atget’s Les Halles http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Lists/?Article=TwentiethCenturyPhotographers

  4. “Photographs furnish evidence.” (p. 4) Alfred StieglitzThe Steerage1907 http://www.masters-of-photography.com

  5. “There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.” (p. 7) Paul StrandBlind1916 http://www.masters-of-photography.com

  6. “In deciding how their pictures should look, in preferring one exposure to another, photographers are always imposing standards on their subjects.” (p. 6) Dorothea LangeMigrant Mother;Nipomo, California1936 http://www.masters-of-photography.com

  7. Walker Evans “After the event has ended, the picture will still exist, conferring on the event a kind of immortality (and importance) it would never have enjoyed.” (p. 11) http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Lists/?Article=TwentiethCenturyPhotographers

  8. “’I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it.” – Diane Arbus (p. 12) Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967, on the cover of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. http://photography-now.net/listings/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=350&Itemid=249

  9. "Tank man" during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This photo was taken on June 5, 1989, by Jeff Widener (The Associated Press). www.wikipedia.com “The ethical content of photographs is fragile.” (p. 21)

  10. Cindy Sherman “The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: ‘There is the surface. Now think--or rather feel, intuit—what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.” (p. 23) http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Lists/?Article=TwentiethCenturyPhotographers

  11. Resource: Sontag, Susan. On Photography. London: Penguin, 1977. What do you think Sontag would say about photography today? Wee on flickr Explore #488, March 21, 2008  http://flickr.com/photos/cleaneugene/2350970352/

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