Ugyan and I discuss Sontag's famous essay 'In Plato's cave' from her book On Photography. Link to the essay: http://sites.uci.edu/01807w14/files/2014/02/SontagSusan_InPlatosCave.pdf Link to Teju Cole's essay: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/magazine/a-too-perfect-picture.html Image: Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive, February 1, 1968. Photographer Eddie Adams Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/khyyl-gtm-khyeltam/donations
