Sontag and Barthes reading

After reading the Sontag "Plato's Cave" and Barthes "Camera Lucida reflections on photograph" there were many things that were fascinating to me.

"Camera Lucida" was very interesting to me because of the way Barthes could talk about his mother's childhood picture and compare the picture to her. Also, I was facinated after reading the way he thought you could read different actions in a photo. The actions were actions that you would do when you grow up.

Reading "Plato's Cave" Sontag talks about how photography gives you information. It tells the viewer what it actually is. Sontag believes that the inforomation a photograph can give is important.

What I find most interesting about these two photography, is that there work is believed to mean more than just looking at the photo itself.