Pluto’s Cave has a unique feature in which it allows light to seep into the cave itself. This shape is similar to the view through a camera lens. Sontag’s essay focuses in on how many different uses a camera has. Cameras are an object used every day by different types of people for many different reasons. Photography’s origins reach back to where it was used strictly as an art. The camera has become a tool used by every average Joe. It is used to freeze memories in time which are meant to be memorialized. The camera is used on a professional level to document evidence for the authorities. It locks an event into stone and tells a story. Unfortunately, it can only tell one side to a story. For this reason, it can divide people.
The essay also refers to photography as soft murder. This refers to the ability to take pictures without the subject knowing about the fact. This makes photography sound perverted and abstract. I feel that photography without the subject knowing is pure photography. Photography with subjects posing does not capture real life situations.
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