Understanding Sontag: The Photographers of On Photography
This handout introduces the primary photographers of On Photography and explores Sontag’s perspective on their work.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 2: HANDOUT 2B
½—1 class periods (30-60 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
Subject Matter > Philosophy
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Essay
Place > American
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Visual analysis
- Visual art analysis
- ELA Reading: 1-3, 7, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1-2, 7-10
OR complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign one or more essays from Sontag’s On Photography in advance.
- Include additional photographers from On Photography in your discussion (see Photography Unit Research handout for a list of photographers).
- Reflection questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.