苏珊·桑塔格在《论摄影》的开篇借用了柏拉图在《理想国》中的洞穴比喻,柏拉图以来的哲学家一直排斥图像性的描述世界,但摄影的出现对这一理论提出了异议,桑塔格认为“收集照片就是收集世界”。现在大多数摄影理论家认为摄影的本质是记录和纪实,这要求摄影师以历史亲历者的目光并运用手中的记录工具来证明这段历史。摄影师布拉塞在《夜巴黎》中记录了大量不同阶层在夜晚 Susan Sontag borrowed Plato’s cave metaphor in The Republic from the opening of On Photography, and since Plato’s philosophers have always rejected the pictorial description of the world, the appearance of photography objected to this theory , Sontag believes that “collecting photos is collecting the world.” Most photographic theorists now consider the nature of photography to be documentary and documentary, which requires photographers to prove the history with the eyes of the historical witness and with the recording tools in hand. Photographer Blaise recorded a large number of different classes in the Night of Paris at night