Photography Is A Social Rite, But It Can Be A Defense Against Anxiety And A Tool Of Power

Photographs are special because you can tell an entire story with them without using a single word, it can convey emotions, and feelings. Photographs make connections, photographs can show challenges in our world along with celebrating the greatness in the world.

Photos can be an illustrative material object to shape a story. But photos just reflect upon our memories and try to relate to the overall useless piece of paper. Photos may have value but they are essentially paper and just that. Photos are meaningless because each person just brings his own mental state of mind to the picture.

No matter it’s effect, photography was and is very pivotal throughout society. Photography can be a beautiful but yet haunting form of art. It displays an image which is characterizing

In today's time there are many people hide behind a screen with a fake identity just to live the life they never had. While doing this they end up catfishing someone who does not deserve to be treated that way. According to the Merriam Webster, instead of just being some type of fish it has another definition that refers to “a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes”(Webster) what tends to throw people off is the fact that the account looks so real, “A ‘catfisher’ may choose to use their own photos yet pretend to be a different age, sex, profession, in a different location, and be single when they are not. A catfisher can also use someone else's photos to create their fake

Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the photograph. What we capture in a picture, has much more value than we often time see in our commercials, people, places, they tell a story to the ignorant, paint a picture for blind, give the deaf something to listen to, and so much more.

Gathering photos, Sontag Argues that it is the same as gathering to the world. Photos are ancient rarities, which make and gather the environment that we see to be current. She contends that capturing something is picking up responsibility for and making a sort of information-like connection to the world. Photography makes a smaller than usual representation of parts of the unmistakable world that anybody can get as his or her own. Photos are a kind

When photography began to gain not only popularity, but accessibility, it became a topic of discussion on its place in art. Whether if it should be considered a fine art or whether its place lied in documentation. However, even with documentation, a broad assumption was that there could be an immediate trust. Gardner’s Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter proved that was not always the case, that although documenting the truth of the brutality of the Civil War. The addition of the shotgun that added the idea of fighting until the last minute was actually fabricated creating a disillusion. That photography is meant to depict a standstill truth subject, but viewers of photography can forget that it is still an artwork. That a photo is an image set and

A specific photographic attribute that I observed in her article is framing. As mentioned in Module 1, framing enables the selection and description of “a slice of the world” through a photograph. Similarly, Stephanie Eads, who lives in Walnut Creek, points out that “selfies are [her] way of showing [her family in the Midwest] her day-to-day experiences” (qtd. in Yadegaran). Her once-a-week post on Facebook is her way of building familial bonds that gives her family a chance to have a glimpse of her everyday life, as if they were right there next to her. This is an exceptional exploration of the power in photographs that she has explored. In short, she is able to attain this effect through the emphasis of “selfies . . . with memorable backgrounds” that presents a frame of reference to herself for her family to enjoy.

When was the last time you looked at a photograph and actually thought to yourself “Wow! I actually fully understand the image I am currently viewing.”? If you haven’t ever done that before then you are with 99.99% of the population. However, if one views a well-crafted and carefully planned photograph they will actually honestly understand it. I qualify Susan Sontag’s claim that “All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us to understand anything” due to conflicting reasons. On one level, Sontag is correct because when people view an image they look at it in an extremely basic and simple way without looking at it from a different perspective. Most viewers wouldn’t be able to see the real reason the photographer has shot the photo. It would be the literary equivalent of someone reading “The Allegory of the Cave” literally like a story about prisoners in cave staring at shadows instead of looking at the true meaning of the analogy. Despite this, Sontag can be

In addition, photography does it pivotal role by showing people the realities of life. One relevant example to this is photojournalism. Through photographic presentation, people are informed of the real situations of the stories about the real situations around the globe, may it be good or bad news. It is very easy to understand news or stories with photos attached to them. Therefore, photography is a powerful communication tool that embeds social happenings to the human awakening, with no other form of media can

Although Sturken and Cartwright claim it is quite easy to fall for the misconception that photographs are “unmediated copies of the real world” (Sturken & Cartwright, 17), this is no longer true, if it ever was. While cumbersome, even before the advent of image editing software, it was possible to modify photographs. Furthermore, in contemporary society, we have completely lost faith in mass media representation; rarely do people expect images to be completely unmodified anymore. This is especially visible in western culture since people are pressured to conform into highly specific aesthetics where even a “natural” look is artificially crafted with makeup and digital filters. Even disregarding direct manipulation to a print through methods such as Photoshop, photographs are manipulated in such obvious ways, it almost seems absurd to point it out. The framing, lighting, and positioning are always adjusted by the photographer. Therefore, people themselves are a type of manipulation; a representative filter through which biases are imbued. In effect, Sturken and Cartwright’s conclusion that all camera-generated images bear an “aura of machine objectivity” (Sturken & Cartwright, 16) stemming from “the … legacy of still-photography” (Sturken & Cartwright, 17) is

Luckily in our generation that is immersed in technology, there are ways to protect us from crimes like these and people will still find more ways to protect us from these negative aspects of technology. "Catfishing" is when one person, behind a computer screen, uses a fake profile or identity to be in a relationship with another person. In fact, there is a whole show on MTV dedicated to this concept where two people try to uncover "c atfishes". Hopefully to most, this is seen as unacceptable behavior due to the increased use of

With today’s easy access to instant information and news updates, photography is everywhere. Photos capture everything ranging from an innocent birthday party in the backyard to a tragic dying solider in the rubble. Susan Sontag’s subjective essay Regarding the Pain of Others questions the ethics of looking at and judging controversial photographs, especially the ones of extreme suffering and anguish during war. Sontag elaborates on the relationship between photography and art. She also addresses themes through real life examples, including cigarettes and museums. Although Sontag never directly states her position on the case, her opinion is developed through her selection and analysis of each theme.

Photographs are used to document history, however selected images are chosen to do so. Often times these images graphically show the cruelty of mankind. In her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag asks, "What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?" To acknowledge suffering is just to capture it, to point it out and show somebody else that it exists. In order to protest suffering, there has to be some sort of moral decision that what is shown in the photograph is wrong, and a want from the viewer to change that.

Since the introduction of the World Wide Web and mainstream use of the internet to access information in 1990, the way people interact with each other has changed. Social media has opened up new mediums for people to communicate with each other. People exchange messages on Facebook, post tweets on Twitter, and “selfies” on Instagram. These new mediums have also changed the way people find romance and love. In this modern era, it is not uncommon to see people dating other people they have met on the internet. This has opened the door for “catfishing”, lying about your true identity on the internet in order to lure someone into a relationship. This has become so common that Molly McHugh of digitaltrends.com4 has described it as an epidemic. This essay will explore how catfishing has developed with the introduction of social media, why people catfish, and why talking over the internet makes it difficult to spot when someone is presenting a false identity. It will also identify the impacts that catfishing has had on society.