Sontag

Sontag writes, "Harrowing photographs do not inevitably lose their power shock. But they are not much help if the task is to understand. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
When we really evaluate the facile understanding we arrive at from ,just, looking at war photography, is it really an understanding? Do you honestly feel that from looking at a photo that have an understanding of the action taking place, is a photograph is meant to enlighten you about a matter or merely "haunt" and "shock" you? Explain.