{"id":167,"date":"2018-03-19T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=167"},"modified":"2018-03-19T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T03:00:41","slug":"photographs-and-susan-sontag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/03\/19\/photographs-and-susan-sontag\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographs and Susan Sontag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since our last class on Thursday, I have not been able to stop thinking about the photographs we examined in class of indentured laborers in Trinidad. Being able to actually see snapshots into the lives of a group of people that we have been learning about was very eye-opening. Instead of abstractly thinking about the function of Indian laborers in society in the Caribbean, the photographs served as a concrete source of proof, a snapshot into their daily lives. Being able to see these women stooped over the rice paddies was much more impactful than just imagining it; it strengthened my understanding of indentured labor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I started reading <em>On Photography<\/em> by Susan Sontag, and her ideas allowed me to view the experience of seeing those photographs in a different light. Sontag claims that \u201c[p]hotographs furnish evidence\u201d (5), and I certainly found that to be the case regarding my learning about the Coolies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Works Cited<\/p>\n<p>Sontag, Susan. On Photography. Picador, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our last class on Thursday, I have not been able to stop thinking about the photographs we examined in class of indentured laborers in Trinidad. Being able to actually see snapshots into the lives of a group of people that we have been learning about was very eye-opening. Instead of abstractly thinking about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150481,118958,118957],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog-post-3","tag-harneyk","tag-kayla-harney","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}