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Type/paste your activity/exit ticket from yesterday— The main idea & supporting detail for Sontag’s “On Photography”

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In order to fully understand photographs, we can’t judge them solely based on what they look like,  we need to learn the purpose or what the narrator has to offer from the photo before we get an idea of the world that isn’t true.

“one never understands anything from a photograph...Only that which narrates can make us understand.”

“By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.”

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Main Idea: Our world is constantly being flooded with images and photographs which is causing the truth to be distorted and harder to find.

Supporting Idea(s): For instance, while photographs have the ability to “ fill in blanks in our mental pictures of the present and past”, they aren’t capable of reliably giving the facts. The pictures are only showing what is wanted to be shown, “the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it disclosed.”

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Main idea: The main idea of "On Photography" by Sontag is how photography create, remake, and block out parts of reality.
Supporting evidence: Sontag brings up the point that "a photograph of the Krupp works reveals virtually
nothing about that organization." (para 1). It never said who was doing it or why it was being done, so the true intent would’ve never been known only through that picture. It blocked out the harsh reality behind it and only showed what the photographer wanted to see.

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Main Idea: One can never learn the whole truth from just a photo alone.

“Nevertheless, the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than

it discloses.”

“Only that which narrates can make us

understand.”

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Sontag’s main idea is to explain to the readers that photography is a different understanding which starts from not accepting the world as it looks.By looking at pictures this way, it is a sentimental value to those taking the picture, and what Sontag really means by that is, everyone looks at different everything differently.

Supporting Idea(s): I understand where she's coming from I also think that pictures come from the heart and people always take in different meanings from different pictures . I love taking pictures, but I do think pictures are very sentimental.

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Main Idea:
I think the main idea in “On Photography” by Sontag is that photographs have become a huge part of today's society.

Supporting Idea:
So many people don’t live in the moment anymore, when anything happens the first thing they do is pull out their phones. Everyone is “Needing to have availability” to their phones and it shows that “everyone is now addicted” (Sontag 2).

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Main Idea: Sontag claims that the people of today’s societies’ obsession with images is detrimental to their awareness and understanding of the world around them, as the commonly occurring act of accepting any given image as the whole truth is an inadequate way of getting a complete perspective on reality.

Supporting Idea(s): To value an image without question is to accept it as the whole truth, however, to really understand the information presented one must go deeper, as real understanding “starts from not accepting the world as it looks”. Hence, the image itself is inadequate in portraying the event in totality. Also, the availability of images in society and the rate at which we are faced with more and more of them “has an incalculable effect on our ethical sensibility”, as we don’t look beyond them we are given the false sense that “the world is more available than it really is”.

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Main Idea: The camera captures how the world really is but people don’t recognize what we are living in because we are too focused on social images and statuses.
Supporting Idea(s): “image- junkies” “Photography implies that we know about the world if we except it as the camera records it“
People now don't go anywhere without their phones, and social media, "irresistible form of mental pollution".

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Main Idea: Photography is not a reliable source of information.

Supporting Idea(s): Young generations are taught that social media pictures provide the most trustworthy information. “Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.” paragraph 3

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Main Idea:
The photograph's portrayal is based on the preconceptions/ biases of the photographer. A photo never gives the full story

Supporting ideas:
"And functioning takes

place in time and must be explained in time. Only that which narrates can make us

understand." The person who takes the photo can paint whatever picture they choose wit the camera. They are in control of how we perceive information. We never truly can understand the totality of the event and the full unbiased truths behind a photo.

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Main Idea: Photographs cannot give any real information.

Supporting Idea(s): Photos can only show you things at face value. They do not offer actual facts or details about an event.

This is highlighted when Sontag states, “The limit of photographic knowledge of the world is that, while it can goad consciousness, it can, finally, never be ethical or political knowledge.”

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Main Idea: The main Idea is that one shouldn’t believe everything they see, that there is more to it. She supports this with her reference of a photo of the Krupp factory. Germany had severe limits put onto it military and arms manufacturing after WW1, yet they still mass produced arms in preparation for WW2 in secret. The Krupp factory was one of these weapon plants. On the outside, it’s an unsuspecting factory, but with context of the photo it becomes far worse. This is her whole point. Not everything is as it seems at first.

Supporting Idea(s): A single image doesn’t show everything, there is a context and story behind it that you can’t discover without being taught it from another.

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Main Idea: Photography can capture certain aspects of life in their physical form but cannot be used as the only way to truly understand these events.

Supporting Idea(s): “The limit of photographic knowledge of the world is that, while it can goad conscience, it can, finally, never be ethical or political knowledge.”

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Main Idea: Sontag’s main idea in “On Photography” is in society photographs are given a sort of scientific value due to their mechanical workings, yet in the end photos add much more to the pathos of an argument rather than ethos or logos. We falsely place deeper understanding, universal connections, and enhanced experiences all within photography.

Supporting Idea(s): Sontag points out that one does not really understand a topic better after seeing a photo, because understanding is based off function and a photo only displays looks. Her best way of stating this is “functioning takes place in time and must be explained in time.” Photography gives us no deeper understanding of function because it is only one moment in time.

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Main Idea: you dont know whats behind a photo
Supporting Idea(s): “one never understands anything from a photograph...” they go on to explain how a picture only captures what you want it to and you can control how it is perceived.

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Main Idea: The main Idea is that one shouldn’t believe everything they see, that there is more to it. She supports this with her reference of a photo of the Krupp factory. Germany had severe limits put onto it military and arms manufacturing after WW1, yet they still mass produced arms in preparation for WW2 in secret. The Krupp factory was one of these weapon plants. On the outside, it’s an unsuspecting factory, but with context of the photo it becomes far worse. This is her whole point. Not everything is as it seems at first.

Supporting Idea(s): A single image doesn’t show everything, there is a context and story behind it that you can’t discover without being taught it from another.

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Main Idea: Pictures can't tell the entire story behind a situation.
Supporting Idea(s): “Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera

records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from ​not​ accepting the

world as it looks.” “ one never understands anything from a photograph.”

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Main Idea: Photography can only show certain aspects of the scene,  and so it cannot be a definite way of viewing things.
Supporting Idea(s): “By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.”

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Main idea: Photography can be manipulated to fit the story of the narrator and to fully understand a photo you need the narrator’s explanation.

Supporting Idea: “Nevertheless, the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses. “

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Main idea: Guy rambling talking about junk nobody cares about and is all false

Supporting Ideas: "Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it."
This person is just making up nonsense they're probably just losing their mind.

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main idea: Photographs cannot show us the full truth of reality.
Supporting idea: Photographs capture a certain moment in time which proves what is happening then but not what has really happened before or after the photo was taken.

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Main idea: You can't understand the true meaning of a photograph unless it is told from the photographers point of view.

Supporting Ideas
"one never understands anything from a photograph.  Of course,

photographs fill in blanks in our mental pictures of the present and the past: for example,

Jacob Riis’s images of New York squalor in the 1880s are sharply instructive to those

unaware that urban poverty in late-nineteenth-century America was really that

Dickensian.  Nevertheless, the camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more than

it discloses.  As Brecht points out, a photograph of the Krupp works reveals virtually

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nothing about that organization.  In contrast to the amorous relation, which is based on

how something looks, understanding is based on how it functions.  And functioning takes

place in time and must be explained in time.  Only that which narrates can make us

understand."