When a photo is taken that moment of time is framed as a definitive thing, something that can be remembered, something that is immortal. Susan Sontag touches on this idea in her essay, “In Plato’s Cave”, as she goes through the pros and cons of photography’s effect on the world. Sontag states “A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened” expanding on her previous claim that when a person takes a picture, they show their part of the world, their reality (5). What she means when saying photographs prove an event existed, is that when snapshots are taken, that moment will be saved in history, personal and or on a geographical scale. Taking photos is like claiming a piece of someone's life, it claims the world or…show more content… When going in depth on the perception of art, Allison states, “Art should provoke more questions than answers and, most of all, should make us think about what we rarely want to think about at all” showing that when one see’s art they should be perplexed about it, they should not come to a simple conclusion straight away (594). Using emotions to emote immortality in photography, and art in general, should always be the end goal of an artist. Not just taking a picture or painting a piece, but putting all of the emotions that the maker felt during that time into the piece, so much so that when a viewer looks at, they feel a connection to it. Another point Allison adds to the idea of emotional perspective in art concludes that “Art is the Rorschach test for all of us, the projected hologram of our secret lives” meaning that each of us see something different and experience something unique when looking at art (595). Perceiving how we do based on many factors, such as culture and background, the way we see art is shaped by how we were raised, our experiences. Perspectives change, events shape our minds, adjust everything we see through our lives. Never truly letting one see photography or anything really the same way again as they did in that moment. Backgrounds change us as human beings, developing our minds and making us feel in all sorts of different ways when looking at
