What is Plato’s Cave?

How does the camera imply importance?

How does the degree of familiarity effect the response to photograph?

How did photography effect tourism?

Why might the ugly and grotesque be moving?

How does the cave relate to photography?

How is photography political?

How is the camera predatory?

Picture taking is an event. Why? Discuss photographic intervention.

Why does Sontag consider the photograph memento mori? What do you think?

Are photographs pieces of the world?

How does the photograph change over time?

Does Sontag think that photographic knowledge can be ethical or political? Why or why not? What do you think?

Sontag defines an event as something worth photographing. Why? How does the public decide what is an event?

Sontag claims that the photograph stimulates both mentally and physically. How?

Does Sontag think a person could know the whole world though the photograph? Do you?

“I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do-that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did I felt very perverse.” - Diane Arbus Discuss this quote. Why is it important? How is photography exploitative?

Sontag states that, “Through photographs, the world becomes a series of unrelated, freestanding particles” How does this effect the way we see the world?

Sontag states that photographs are more memorable than the moving image. Why? Do you agree?

How does the photograph effect the right to observe? How does the photograph effect experience?

What is the consequence of the acceptance of photography as truth?

Sontag claims that the photograph stimulates both mentally and physically. How?