Paragraph 1 (Your Personal Example):
Describe your own history with taking and viewing photographs. You can include when and why you starting taking photos as well as what your photos are generally of. Also include what kind of photographs you like to look at (besides your own) and why.
Paragraph 2:
Begin with a one sentence thesis that fully answers the Essay 2 question:
Which 2 of the following ideas from Susan Sontag’s On Photography do your personal experiences viewing and taking photographs support?
Photographs are not mere reflections of reality. Photographs, with their widespread penetration into world cultures, reveal and determine biases in our perceptions of reality.
Photographs can have negative effects when the viewer assumes her or his interpretation of what the photograph means is revealing a universal truth instead of merely one possible interpretation out of many possible meanings.
Photographs can demoralize and even reduce a viewer’s empathy for the subject in the photo when the photograph has too much shock value or there are too many shocking photos of that same subject.
- Support your thesis by discussing at least two quotations from Sontag's On Photography.
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