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Karen Liao: A Fresh Perspective on Photography

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Photography and Text by Karen Liao, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . Susan Sontag: On Photography . A Fresh Perspective on Photography . Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a highly complex, brilliant look at the development, meaning, and impact of photography on the world. The book is split into six chapters discussing various aspects of … Read more

Justina McMinn: Capturing Reality

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  Photography and Text by Justina McMinn, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . Susan Sontag: On Photography . Capturing Reality . Sontag makes many important points in her essays in On Photography. The first essay, however, really connected with me. In Plato’s Cave essentially says photography is a means for capturing reality. She talks about … Read more

Jesse Halpern: The Bridge Between Beauty and Truth

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. Photography and Text by Jesse Halpern, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . Susan Sontag: On Photography . The Bridge Between Beauty and Truth . My senior focus in my high school painting class was on objects that are under appreciated, things that we use daily that we do not really notice until we notice … Read more

Yash Killa: Night Magic

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  Photography and Text by Yash Killa, Copyright 2018 . Night Magic . I remember when I first found out that I would be studying at University of Pennsylvania. It was soon after when I searched up Google Images of Philadelphia and the UPenn campus having never seen it earlier. What I saw was a … Read more