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When there is a critique about the photograph which is documentary, Sontag is the first name that comes to mind. For Sontag a gap is opened - who questioned the photograph is a documentary or not- between reality and image, it is no longer closes. According to her photograph just will gain documentary qualification with a description. There are several reasons why Sontag is -to say the least- cautious about photograph's property of being documentary. The first of these is that photograph changed the idea of reality. Such that we can barely place the photograph just with a subtitle in fieald of reality. The idea that photograph makes us insensitive which is actually a contemporary cliche is another reason. In fact, the people who are continuously exposed to horrible images, a little while later won't be affected by them. We see the same cliche in the cinema. Modern directors used this a lot. Another argument of Sontag is the reality that wars are endless and unavoidable. According to him photograph is kind of a rhetoric on its own and it is reproduced by recursion of a phenomenon. It simplifies the phenomenon. However, unlike Sontag, Linfield says that photographs show us our inevitable failure of understanding what is human. In this sense, photograph creates a political awareness besides its documentary characteristic. Sontag, acknowledged that the photo had made an impression above us with its emphasis on temporariness. According to her, the photo caused "shock" effect and also this effect was not give us opportunity for interpretation. A photo has barely clarified with a description text under it. Thereby the photo's political and ethical meaning was skeptical, its witness was eristic for Sontag. Whereas Butler object to Sontag and acknowledged that the photo -especially war and violence's photos- gives us opportunity to a perceptible reality. According to her, photos could change our world, could be witness and could use to prove war crimes. Butler's critiques on Sontag's writing is right in this sense. This paper is an attempt to critical based on the critics of Sontag's about photo and about these kind of photo's meaning. The demonstrability has semtinized within the frame of such questions “What does a photo tell us? How could the photo's fictional world reflect the reality? Could a photo change boundaries of the relation between fiction and reality?”
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