Practices of Looking–Pages 9-26

        Chapter one, titled Images, Power, and Politics begins with, "Every day, we engage in practices of looking to make sense of the world" (pg.9). I really like that the chapter starts off with this because I feel like it can be real easy to take our eyesight for granted and the only way they we can truly 'make sense of the world' is by looking around us at what has been created for our visual stimulation to understand life and its processes. Because single images can mean different things to different people, they can have a variety of multiple different meanings, connotations, and significance. I liked how the section on Representation compared images as a type of language; a way to understand, describe, and define the world around us. I had never thought about images providing an explanation for something I don't understand. I liked the example that the book used of René Magritte's Les Deux Mysteres. I felt like this picture by itself really helped to emphasize that images are literally images and by saying that a image of a pipe it literally not a pipe is almost so mind blowing that it is hard to explain in words. The rest of this section of the book talks about the myth of photographic truth and the ideology of images. I thought it was interesting to rad about images and their not so truthful state. Images are not always what they are perceived to be, but because most of the time they come close, many people just take it for granted that what you see is what you get. Images created by cameras can be altered from their original state by the change in lens, aperture, lighting, etc., but with today's technology images can be altered or manipulated even more with the help of computer programs like photoshop.