Susan Sontag Reading Response

This reading was very well thought out and encouraged me to look at images through an even more expanded lens. Susan Sontag brought up many points that I appreciate about photography, such as the power of photography in itself. Photographers have the ability to visually prove that some experience happened, or that some individual existed. Authenticity and truth are seen in an image, along with phoniness and deceit. An image tells all. She referred to photography as a "narrowly selective transparency."Even though some photographers are capturing an authentic experience or reality, there are still aesthetic choices that are made to create an image such as composition, the subject's expression, the lighting. All of these things contribute to making a strong image, but is modifying an image still displaying the transparency of an experience?