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It is precisely this photographic dominance of the world that bothers Susan Sontag and against which she reacts in On Photography. She asks pointed questions about the nature of photography and its effects on culture and society--aesthetic questions, moral questions, political questions, philosophical questions. She alludes to the parable...
But mass art forms are not inherently inferior. In fact, mass appeal may well be a quality that should be praised and sought after rather than scoffed at. Photography represents more than an extension of acquisitive consciousness; it also represents an extension of aesthetic consciousness. Every picture taken involves choice...
For Sontag, photography rests on uncertain aesthetic premises; it contains a fundamental "confusion about truth and beauty." Some photographers, like Weston, exalt photography as a better way of seeing, while others, like Robert Frank, see it as a chance to offer a view of life as it really is, to...
Although some sequences are gone, most of the cutting consists of shortening lengthy shots which dwelled on slow and difficult operation of space-age machinery. Kubrick probably regrets his current job of attempting to satisfy future audiences: the trimming of two sequences involving the mechanics of entering and controlling "space...
The underpass is also an "aesthetic thing," according to Goyette. "It's a proper thing--both physically and visually--to make a closer connection between the Yard and the North-of-Yard area," he said.