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Susan Sontag has an unconventional view of photographs; to her, they are not just flashes of the past or recorded memories. Sontag finds a hidden agenda in all photographs. She even goes far enough to attach sinister motives to the act of photographing, stating that “to photograph someone is a sublimated murder” (14-15). After reading this, a picture popped into my head. I saw a man drenched in an evil red hue, in a dark room while crouched over and staring at a picture of a young woman. The photographer no longer remained a normal man with a camera; he became an insidious stalker—focused on capturing the woman in his photos. Such is a very extreme view of p