What I See Must Be What Is True

The chapter out of Susan Sontags book On Photography writes on provoke points of photographic images in our society. She writes, Humankind lingers unregenerately in Platos Cave, still reveling, its demode habit, in mere images of the truth. (p. 3) With these words she is stating the importance and the effects that photographs shed on the images in our world. The truths in which they reveal are remnants of what we dig as truth.

She mentions how photographs give certain images worth and that worth is pose according to the photograph. This is true in many aspects. Would national monuments be as important if they were not photographed as often? No, the concomitant is our ideas of worth are based solely on what we receive of them through pictures and drawings. For example, there is a vale in the sierra Nevada that was carved millions of years ago by a glacier. This valley is world renowned for its beauty and is one of the most photographed sites in the world, Yosemite National Forest. Most people have heard and index have visited Yosemite but rarely do you hear of the valley south of Yosemite, which was formed in the same way, Muir Valley. Just as glorious to the eye as Yosemite, Muir Valley goes virtually unmentioned.



You wont wait professional photographs or special books and videos of this Valley because it is deep at heart the roughed terrain of the Sierra Nevada and its only entrance is a long laborious hike on foot. Sontag would say that because Yosemite is photographed millions of times each year that its worth it proven over and over again. It is not the awesomeness only when that makes a natural curio a true wonder but its accessibility to duplications of it through photographs.

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