Letter 14: Susan Sontag on the Unbearability of Not Taking Photos (And Not Sharing Them)
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Letter 14: Susan Sontag on the Unbearability of Not Taking Photos (And Not Sharing Them)
A Major Regret in My Life: My Camera Roll
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It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. An ugly or grotesque subject may be moving because it has been dignified by the attention of the photographer. A beautiful subject can
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