In the Susan Sontag essay, In Plato's Cave, Sontag states her views and opinions of what photography means to her. Some of her main points include that it captures a specific moment in time and/or can be used as "a way of certifying experience" (9). But as essay moved on, I found that she reinforced these thoughts on photography and focused more on how it can be a "naughty thing" (12). She states that some photography is, in a sense, pornographic. I believe her support for this becomes very strong as she compares the first pictures seen of Nazi concentration camps to the same shocking experience as when someone is exposed to their first pornographic encounter.
This was a very interesting but also, an extremely difficult read for me. Almost every page, perhaps paragraph, contained words I have never seen in my reading career. Words such as "nascent" and "banal" would appear. Not knowing these words, I struggled understanding the sentences that contained them and the ideas shared from those sentences.
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