Reader Responsing
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Reading Response
I read the essay "Graven Images" by Saul Bellows. In this essay Saul tells us how pictures
and photographers tell a different story than we tell ourselves and others. Not that Bellows hates
photographers, but that his self-esteem, or amour propre(185), doesn't really like what they have
to say. That we put on an image for ourselves and others, but if the camera is given the chance, it
will get you off guard. To me he is saying that we may perceive ourselves, and want to be
perceived by others, a certain way but if given the chance a photographer with a camera can take
a picture and tell a whole different story, just by a picture.
Bellows talks about, and shows examples of, Linda Tripp. Now in the first picture that is
shown(183), she is very obnoxious and bitchy looking while she is walking. Just from the
expression on her face I saw a very irritating person who doesn't care about anybody in the way
of her warpath. Then in the next picture that was shown(184), Tripp had a makeover and an
exclusive. Here she looks softer, a little prettier and more motherly, despite the selfish quote on
the cover stating that "My family paid a huge price...