In this essay, Susan Sontag talked about many famous photographers and other artists. A few that caught my interest are:
- Edward Steichen: He was able to take a photo of an everyday object or a place or person and make it beautiful even if normally it is not.
- Walker Evans and Alfred Stieglitz: The two people captured the "real thing". They stayed with the poor farmers and learned their hardships. They lived the life of the farmer and took that back to show the world.
- Diane Arbus: Arbus' photos create almost a world within a world. A place where people who don't exactly fit into the "Norm" in society can go and live freely.
- Walt Whitman: Similar to Edward Steichen, Whitman could take an "ugly" picture but in the way he took the "ugliness" seemed meaningful and beautiful.
- All these photographers are able to create importance and meaning with their photography. They make people look and make people care just by taking a picture at the right moment.
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