5 picture guide

First 10 pgs of "America, Seen through Photographs, Darkly"

In the first ten pages of Sontag's "America, Seen through Photographs, Darkly", she puts a focus towards the beauty of all subjects in photography.  One of her strongest statements of this may just be, "No moment is more important than any other moment; no person is more interesting than any other person" (28).  She then compares and contrasts the exhibitions of Edward Steichen and Diane Arbus.  Steichen's contains various photographs of beautiful looking people all photographed by different photographers.  Arbus's collection is completely different in that it contains photos of ugliness and disturbance of people in awkward poses that were all taken by one photographer.