(nostalgia) Sontag's quote 18-19 narrational dialoges and photographic images

     Sontag is saying that a picture is open to interpreting unless the photographers tells the viewer what is happening and what they captured in this picture.  The viewer then looks at the photo in the photographers point of view.  This is shown throughout (nostalgia) as we hear him tell a description or memory of a photo he took then after we see the picture, but not during.  This allows the viewer to image what the photo looks like but then after they see the actual picture and can compare it to the one they imagined.  If there was no dialogue or words in (nostalgia) the audience would make their own interpretations of the photos.  The narrator even does this on a photo of man and his destroyed fruit orchard.  He did not take this photo so he simply makes up what he believes or wants to believe is going on in it.  Like Sontag says " There can be no evidence, photographic or otherwise, of an event until the event itself has been named and characterized."  Another photo that surprised me in (nostalgia) was when he was describing the two toilets that looked like the crucifixion of Christ.  When the picture was shown it looked nothing like what he described but simply two toilets.  If he had not said that I would not have even thought of that.  What I learned from this video was that the description of a photo may change the whole view and what a person sees in it.