Reading Response 4/15 Visual & Performing Arts Essay Sontag, S. (2014). On Photography

Reading response
Name
Institution
Date of Submission
Reading response
The book describes the 1970s role of photography and takes a view of the previous year’s photography. The books also entail a description of various photographic works including the work of Diane Arbu’s. The history of American photography by Walt Whitman is presented relating it to how America was in 1970. The author put across the idea that photography has the meaning of every event is leveled and equal, and interpretation of the photographs bring out what the photographer intended or what the analyzer what to put across. The author further noted that the photographic images had established a “chronic voyeuristic relation” between people. The notion of anti-intervention is presented in the book with a conflict arising that the photographer cannot adequately intervene in whatever he or she is recording and neither can a pe...