Sontag's quote had me confused for second because I did not properly understand the meaning of "nonintervention" until I read her example. But none the less the quote "Photographing is essentially an act of nonintervention." means that while taking a photo you have the option to decide whether you want to intervene or stay back and capture the moment through the lens instead. And that brings me to the example of Kevin Carter, who committed suicide not long after winning the Pulitzer Prize. His example relates because Kevin became famous by photographing a dying child with a vulture waiting in the background. Many people criticized him for not helping the child even though he said there were relief workers there to help the child. In consequence to the criticism it may seem that is why he committed suicide. In that instance when he took the photo of that child he decided not to intervene with what was happening in that photo and chose the experience over hel
Passage one to me means that when you are alternating a photo in anyway it changes the photo. For example if i were to make changes to the vulture photo above like removing the bird or just taking some rocks or grass out of the photo I am still changing the image because it is not the original product. And the significance of that is that those changes are lies to the viewer. We would never know it but the photographer or editor is lying to the public about the original image and that makes us viewers not know if we should trust the photos we see or not. And between the thousands of images we are exposed to everyday we are creating a fake world of images and creating a lack of trust among the people around us.