This page is meant to support our first reading from Sontag's On Photography, The Cave.  An amusing TedTalk that explains what Plato had in mind is here. A more somber claymation version is here.

Download a PDF of On Photography here.

The scene from Godard's film that Sontag mentions on page three.

The Chris Marker film Sontag mentions on page five is here: Si j'avais quatre dromadaires.

 New York Times film critic A.O. Scott discusses La Jetee which is Marker's best known work.  

 A key sequence from La Jetee as mentioned by A.O. Scott.

The full film - La Jetee is here. 

 A mind-blowingly clear print (for Youtube) of Dziga-Vertov's masterpiece Man With a Movie Camera. Sontag mentions it on page twelve. 

 The original trailer for Antonioni's 1966 film restored in High Definition. Sontag mentions the film on page thirteen.

 The scene with a model named Veruschka that Sontag mentions on page thirteen. "Naughtiness indeed."

 A trailer for the Michael Powell film Peeping Tom that Sontag describes on page thirteen.

A short historical review of Peeping Tom by British Film Institute (BFI) critic Mark Kermode.

 In a short clip Martin Scorsese discusses the impact and importance of Peeping Tom.

 Finally a short animation about one of Sontag's late works, Regarding the Pain of Others, that features her own voice-over.