This week, discussing the basics of visual processing, how images have been rece

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This week, discussing the basics of visual processing, how images have been received at various points in history, and how images are inseparable from the culture(s) in which they are produced. In your blog posting, I’d like you to answer this question: do images show the truth? Why or why not? Draw on the readings to support your position.

Readings:

•Susan Sontag, Image-World from On Photography

•Susan Sontag, In Plato’s Cave

Susan Sontag, Image-World from On Photography

Susan Sontag ON PHOTOGRAPHY BY SUSAN SONTAC FICTION THE BENEFACTOR DEATH KIT 1. ETCETERA ESSAYS ACAINST INTERPRETATION STYLES OF RADICAL WILL ON PHOTOCRAPHY ILLNESS AS METAPHOR UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN FILMSCRPTS DUET FOR CANNIBALS BROTHER CARL ANCHOR BOOKS DOUBLEDAY New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland A SUSAN SONTACREADER

Explanation / Answer

Images may not always show thr truth. This is a fact that Plato himself iterates through his writings and work. Indeed images are one of the most fundamenta type of understanding that we possess, especially of the history that it depicts through itself. Even to the non-believers of skeptics it provides concrete ideas about the reality since it is not dependable on largely abstract ideas or concepts. However, on the contrary images are symbolized that therefore may contain ideas that are difficult to understand or correctly decoded by the general public. Therefore, it inherently contains potential danger of being misinterpreted and used by the society at large, where it actually intended at passing on the actual message. The reader and interpreter may thus be an expert at understanding and decoding the nature of the message contained in the images.

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