>>4242001>>4242003Fine if you'll just strawman her without giving any specifics, from wikipedia
>As she argues, perhaps originally with regard to photography, the medium fostered an attitude of anti-intervention. Sontag says that the individual who seeks to record cannot intervene, and that the person who intervenes cannot then faithfully record, for the two aims contradict each other.Kinda seems like more than pure rhetoric, but it's wrong I think. Faithful recording is perhaps never possible, the photographer is always imposing somehow. Vietnam soldiers with cameras both intervened and recorded "faithfully", as faithfully as anyone could. But their photographs were meaningful and changed the world. (Maybe they weren't art, but if anything is unfaithful reproduction it'd be art.)
Why is she such a stick up your asses? Are people forced to read her in photography courses or something?
