Write an essay in which you support Sontag''s claim that photography limits our unterstanding of the world. Use appropriate evidence to develop your argument. Susan Sontag''s Photography: Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All possiblity of undertanding is rooted in the ability to say no. Strickly speaking, one never understands anything from a photograph. Of course, photographs fill in blanks in our mental pictures of the present and the past: for example Jacob Riis''s images of New York squalor in the l880''s are sharply instructive to those unaware that urban poverty in late-nineteenth-century America was really that Dickensian. Nevertheless, the camera''s rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses. As Brecht points out, a photograph of the Krupp works reveals virtually nothing about that organization. In contrast to the amorous relation, which is based on how something looks,understanding is based on how it functions. And functioning takes place in time and must be explained in time. Only that which narrates can make us understand. The limit of photographic knowledge of the world is that, while it can goad conscience, it can, finally, never be ethical or political knowledge. The knowledge gained through still photographs will always be some kind of sentimentalism, whether cynical of humanist. It will be a knowledge of bargain prices-a semblance of knowledge of wisdom....The very muteness of what is, hypothetically, comprehensible in photographs is what constitutes their attraction and provocativeness. The omnipresence of photographs has an incalculable effect on our ethical sensiblity. By furnsihing this already crowded world with a duplicat one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is. Needing to have relaity confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial socieities turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Please write the essay on the previous passage. Thank you.