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    Plato's allegory of the cave describes prisoners chained and forced to stare at shadows on a cave wall, unaware of the true reality outside. Sontag draws a parallel between these prisoners and consumers of images, who live in a world defined by images rather than direct experience. While photography was initially hailed as a way to document reality, it has come to replace reality as our primary experience of studying and learning about the world.

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    Plato's allegory of the cave describes prisoners chained and forced to stare at shadows on a cave wall, unaware of the true reality outside. Sontag draws a parallel between these prisoners and consumers of images, who live in a world defined by images rather than direct experience. While photography was initially hailed as a way to document reality, it has come to replace reality as our primary experience of studying and learning about the world.

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    Plato's allegory of the cave describes prisoners chained and forced to stare at shadows on a cave wall, unaware of the true reality outside. Sontag draws a parallel between these prisoners and consumers of images, who live in a world defined by images rather than direct experience. While photography was initially hailed as a way to document reality, it has come to replace reality as our primary experience of studying and learning about the world.

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    Susan Sontag, In Plato’s Cave

    from the book: On Photography

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