On Photography by Sontag

On Photography by Susan Sontag could be read as an educational narrative on the evolution of photography. Throughout the article, she describes many different ways how photography can be used in many different aspects of life in the world today. Photographs can be used for educational purposes, evidential purposes, and also they can prove the discovery of something.

One way that photography can be very useful is in the detective world. Photographs can be used as evidence in many crime scenes. If there was any photographs that were taken during the time of the crime, then it could prove the guiltyness of the person that committed the crime. Photographs are taken after the crime was committed in order to have legitimate evidence of how the crime scene originally looked after the crime was committed. Detectives cannot rely on the trust of others to make sure that the crime scene isn't tampered with throughout a period of time. Susan states that "photographs furnish evidence. Something that we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we are shown a photograph of it." And then she states that "a photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happend. The picture may distort, but there is always the presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture."

For the educational purpose, photographs can instill the many lessons that can be learned from a single picture. A visual aide such as a still photograph can teach and explain so much more than a moving picture