notes to "In Plato's Cave" Jeff, Kaitlin, Michaela, Kim

Functions of /metaphors for Photography(Jeff, Kaitlin, Michaela, Kim)
-Pseudo-presence and a token of absence actually analogy pg16 “Like a wood fire in a room…”
-Talismatic uses of photographs of sentimental and implicitly magical- attempts to contact or lay -claim to another reality
-Brings news of some unsuspected zone of misery
-Memorable than moving image, neat slice of time not a flow
-Ideology that determines what constitute an event
-Event are not events unless named or labeled
-Phallus
-Guns (predatory weapon)
-Fantasy machine
-Tool of power
-Claim anther reality
-Experience
-Event
-Reinforce morals
-goad conscience
-numb us to horror (desensitize)
-furniture
-ownership
-violate
-mini-reality
-proof/furnish evidence
-fill in blanks
-corrupt
-nostalgic/ elegiac
-extended family
-momento mori/ immortilizing
-interpretation/ imposition
-separate/ small units (infinite)
-sooth anxiety/ buffer from unfamiliar
-possess
-replace experience (becomes event)
-certify experience
-accumulation of trophies
-act of non-intervention

The impact difference between an image and a video. example of the girl screaming. in the photo, she will always and forever scream whereas in a video she will eventually stop whether she is about to die, she will eventually stop screaming.