As life progress, humans begin to doubt whether certain events ever actually happened, memories become more hazy and unclear to the point where it’s best to forget rather carry on with regrets. Sontag explains that photographs make life more fulfilling, for example she states that “something we seems proven when were shown a photograph of it” (Sontag 3). In this aspect photography acts as a direction, a course to take in one’s lifetime to uncover the truth behind life. Photography according to Sontag is form of attainment, as a camera clicks the photo becomes part of a database with networks spreading from family photos to acting as evidence.
She argues that humans become obsessed with power and knowledge, through photography one controls the mechanism of dominion, by exerting our experience and thoughts upon others. Sontag starts off her text by asserting that humans are still in Plato’s cave.
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