Response to “Looking at War” & “The Photojournalism of Meiselas”
We have come to expect war photography as unassailably truthful and unprejudiced as the news with which it is featured, as uninfluenced as its accompanying text. Yet, Susan Sontag in “Looking at War,” reflects a history of how the camera has reported war and horrors from the American Civil War to the Vietnam War, as seen through photographers lenses.
Although she has produced novels, plays and movies, I think Sontag is critics our culture, Her influential work can be seen as a