‘In Plato’s Cave’:
From ‘In Plato’s Cave’ i understood that there are a lot of new images that can’t teach us like older images can. Photographs can help us see the world in a different way because although we can see things through film they are gone in an instant, but photographs can last longer; they can create a sense of mystery to help you create your own story and view of images. I learned how knowledge and writing can be manipulated and exaggerated to be made false and untrue; however, images provide evidence, how photographs “furnish evidence”.
I thought it was interesting to see how much people relied on images in texts. This is because they provide a sense of evidence. However, a lot go images can be copied and manipulated. Also, how an event is known better because of the use of photographs. The photographs taken help to create a memory for people and help to prove that an event was true, that it happened. It was also interesting to read how established newspapers don’t use images.
‘On Being a Photographer’:
I gathered information about how well structured pictures are nicer to look at and people will look at them and take time in doing so. How more static and still the image is, the emphasise that can be placed on the details of the image. I learned that photographers can make good images out of bad situations. Basically, even though the situation could be terrible the photographer can still make a great image. I also learned how we praise the photographer, rather than the picture. Even though the photographer is the one who created the image, the image is what people see and focus on.
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