What I See Must Be What Is True

The chapter out of Susan Sontag's book "On Photography" writes on interesting points of photographic images in our society. She writes, "Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's Cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth." (p. 3) With these words she is stating the importance and the effects that photographs have on the images in our world. The truths in which they reveal are remnants of what we perceive as truth.
She mentions how photographs give certain images worth and that worth is placed according to the photograph. This is true in many aspects. Would…