34;Photography freed painting for its great modernist vocation -- abstraction34;34;A photography change according to the context in which it is seen… Each of these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.34; 34;…. learn about the world39;s horror mainly through the camera: photographs can and do distress. But the aestheticising tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by neutralising it. Camera miniaturise experience, transform history into spectacle. As much as they create sympathy, photographs cut sympathy, distance the emotions….The camera39;s ability to transform reality into something beautiful derives from its relative weakness as a means of conveying truth.34;