"Video and Resistance: Against Documertaries" opens by stating that photographs capture facts and real events so individuals don’t have to rely solely on memory to recall specific details. With photography came documentaries. However, unlike pictures, documentaries are often a disaster as they reveal only distorted versions of the truth. Documentaries are often bias and are created for persuasion purposes. The film can also be manipulated to make viewers believe or think a certain way.
The ideas presented in this article relate to Sontag in the fact that overtime, images begin to consume our reality. We are a visually oriented society and we believe what we see in photographs and on film. This is dangerous however, because often times the things we believe are not the absolute truth.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Piss_Christ_by_Serrano_Andres_(1987).jpg
(for some reason I can't post a picture, only a link appears but it's supposed to be a picture of Piss Christ)
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