Cultural Criticism

“the habit of photographic seeing— of looking at reality as an array of potential photographs— create estrangement from, rather than union with, nature”

“So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”

“the profileration of photographs is

On Photography, Susan Sontag

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” (15)