Contemporary Views: The Legacy of On Photography
This handout encourages students to reflect on the legacy of On Photography and its relevance today.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 2: HANDOUT 4
1—2 class periods (45-90 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Essay
Place > American
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical analysis
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Internet skills
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Online research
- Research
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Using secondary sources
- Visual analysis
- Visual art analysis
- ELA Reading: 1, 3, 6, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1
- HSS Reading: 1-2, 6, 8-10
Complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign the full texts of Starenko’s “Sontag’s Reception: On Photography (at 20),” Jacob’s “Regarding Sontag, Again,” Feeney’s “For Sontag, A Lover’s Quarrel with the Image,” and/or Scott’s “On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later“ in advance, in place of handout excerpts.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.