Jeremy, Shae, Hope, Claire, Nate
Plato’s Cave
English 100
Feb 22, 2010

· Photographs are experiences
· Images of images
· Furnished evidence
· A photograph- any photograph- seems to have a more innocent, and therefore more accurate, relations to visible reality than do other mimetic objects
· Show something out there
· Treated as a narrowly selective transparency
· Authority, interest, seductiveness, the work that photographers do is no generic exception to the usually shady commerce between are and truth
· Photographers are most concerned with miring reality; they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of tastes and conscience.
· Capture reality, not just interpret it
· Are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are.
· Is relatively undiscriminating, promiscuous or self effacing
· Ascetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted
· Photographs can not create a moral position but they can enforce one
· Photograph happens after an event
· The person who intervene cannot record the person who is recording cannot intervene
· Like sexual voyeurism, it is a way of at least tacitly, often explicitly, encouraging whereis going to keep on happening.
· Tool of power
· Ghostly traces- stand in for extended family
· Reminder of death
· Corrupt
· Provide a sense of immortality
· Toy of the clever
· Art
· More memorable than film
· Photos replace experience
· Furnish evidence

Interesting: We found that guns and cameras both share a level of responsibility and need to be handled carefully because like a gun, a camera can ruin someone’s life, if for example you take a picture that shows a person discriminating someone else and they go to court.