On Photography
Taking photographs has set up a chronic voyeuristic relation to the world which levels the meaning of all events.
Susan Sontag • On Photography
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.
Susan Sontag • On Photography
Nowadays, taking a picture is how we see an image or event, an amplified echo of Susan Sontag’s declaration in ’77 that “today everything exists to end in a photograph.”