The relationship between Photography and Melancholy The purpose of this paper is to develop a critical evaluation of Sontag’s claim of melancholy and Photography, with reference to a photograph taken for a tombstone in a cemetery. She tends to create a discussion of the relationship between photography and melancholy, arguing “…photography is an inventory of mortality…” (Sontag 70). Using some photographs of different people taken earlier by Sander, Sontag concludes that collecting real images in photography is the only way surrealism can help people understand their world.Īrguably, Susan Sontag has developed one of the most important arguments as far as artwork is considered. Therefore, it is evident that she considers surrealism as a local and specific place rather than an imaginary or a creation of the artist. She further argues that photography is the only form of art that displays true surrealism. For instance, she attempts to compare surrealism with painting, where she argues that there is no real surrealism in painting. The main purpose of Sontag’s essay is to focus on surrealism in photography. Susan Sontag’s essay “Melancholy Objects” is one of the several essays in her collection “On Photography” published in the United States in 1973.
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