Susan Sontag

“In Plato’s Cave”

Seeing and Believing . . . photographic evidence.

Dorothea LangeNisei

Matthew Brady: Civil War

Andersonville

Other Early Photographers

“An idealized image of something beautiful.”

Stieglitz

Paul Strand

Farm Security Administration Project

• Walker Evans

• Dorothea Lange

• Ben Shahn

• Russell Lee

Walker Evans

Sontag believed Evan’s project was descended from Walt Whitman’s American transcendentalism.

Dorothea Lange

Ben Shahn

Russell Lee

Diane Arbus

Thanks to Ian Sherman for his presentation on on the Abu Ghraib torture photos given at the CCHA Pacific Division Conference, November 13, 2010, Seattle, WA.