RHETOR 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Kitsch, Susan Sontag, Skeptical Movement
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Photography continuously tries to justify itself - what is being done and. Photographers give contradictory accounts of what kind of knowledge they possess and what kind of art they practice (115) Photography boosts the cognitive claim of sight by enlarging the realm. Picture taking has been interpreted differently in 2 types of ways - 1 of the visible (115) lucid and precise act of knowing or 2 pre-intellectual, intuitive encounter (116) among many photographs) but a concept (117) But in reality, most photography has an almost superstitious. Those who favor anti-intellectual declarations have prepared the. Adams: photography is not an accident (hoping to get a good picture. Rejection of any ideal of authoritative representation (117) Claims of creativity pick up the slack where claims of knowledge falter (117-118) (118) far superior to the opportunity offered by painting (118) Western: photography as opportunity for a type of self expression. There exists a difference between photography as true expression and.
