Chapter 5, “Spectacles and Illusions” is a chapter, which
discusses many how photography is looked at.
This chapter talks about how photography has been used threw the ages,
while elaborating on ideas mentioned in previous chapters. The main points mentioned in the chapter are
about photography as a commodity, creating a spectacle, and its uses in
advertising. Has photography been
commoditized or is it a tool to show commodity culture? It discusses aspects of photojournalism and
the possibilities that photography is creating spectacles. In advertising stock photography has been
used to glamorize ideas in images threw out the ages. Many controversial issues
about photography there the ages regarding marketing and documenting
arose. Photography can be used to sell
all sorts of things including ideas, is it ok to use photos to create ideas or
manipulate them in certain ways to generate them?
Andy Warhol
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