On Photography by Susan Sontag
... Photography has been able to represent a plethora of subjects and environments and make them available to the public. ... Photography has opened doors to cultures bringing the world together and making the universe seem considerably smaller and by far more familiar. ... Photography has been used in advertising as a way to express a message to the consumers. ... It is true that although photography represents a certain reality, it could also be used to shape people’s perception of that truth. ... It is a strictly personal belief of what beauty is, but prior to photography in painting for example there seemed to be a standard of what was painted and thought to be beautiful. Photography has the ability to pay attention to more trivial or atypical subject matters and transform them into desirable, beautiful or interesting. ... Photography provides people with the chance to experience an element of the sense of a journey to an exotic land or a journey to the mind of an artist and explore concepts, messages and information.