Photography and Text by Victoria Meng, Copyright 2018 . Book Review – Susan Sontag’s, On Photography . Raw emotions frozen in time, the essence of an era preserved forever, ecstatic motion immortalized in texture. Empirically, photographs are magical. From light and film, life is created within two dimensions, from detail and abstraction comes an … Read more
Photography and Text by Matt Garber, Copyright 2018 . I SAY WE CARE . After reading Susan Sontag’s On Photography, the one question that I could not drive from my mind was this: why take a photograph? Specifically, why take one of this subject at this moment? This issue is treated extensively by Sontag, … Read more
Photography and Text by Yash Killa, Copyright 2018 . Book Review: Susan Sontag’s, On Photography . ‘On Photography’, authored by Susan Sontag, is a 1977 compilation of a series of essays written by her on the subject throughout the 20th Century. The essays range from talking about the nature of photography along with the … Read more
. Photography and Text by Matt Garber, Copyright 2018 . (Dis-) Comfort . Where do you belong? Where do you not? In a sense, answers to the two questions can help define individuals in an extremely powerful way. I set out to answer these two questions photographically in order to tell the stories … Read more
. Photography and Text by Alberto Jimenez, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . What stood out to me in Susan Sontag’s On Photography was her message on the infinite power and authority photography has in modern society. Sontag explains how being photographed gives us a sense of being real because photography is capturing reality … Read more