Thesis Statement: Susan Sontag- Social/Cultural & Artistic Theroy of Photograpghy

Susan Sontags defines the meaning of photography in her book multiple ways. To her, its a whole another way of living. Susan captures more than just the intellectual part of photography as a historic piece but also an element of society. She see's the meaning to take a photograph and identify its social impact on itself, its the power to caught a moment that is personally appealing, something that is striking as unique. Susan talks about tourism and how its been such a thriving social event, that no one would think of leaving their camera behind. Why? She calls it, "memento mori", a way that photographing pulls one in to participate with another person's (or things) morality, meaning a way to physically and emotionally capture a moment. Photographers allow themselves to understand what is is like to freeze frame a moment in time and forever hold on to that feeling that was framed, catching the sentimental properties of that photo and display its every detail from an artistic point of view.