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Susan Sontag Photography Quotes


Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Susan Sontag Photography 118
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag Photography 82
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. Susan Sontag Photography 69
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons or things mortality vulnerability mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it all photographs testify to times relentless melt. Susan Sontag Photography 63
Life is not about significant details illuminated a flash fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag Photography 62
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. Susan Sontag Photography 49
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. Susan Sontag Photography 37
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. Susan Sontag Photography 30
As objects of contemplation images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. Susan Sontag Photography 29
Time eventually positions most photographs even the most amateurish at the level of art. Susan Sontag Photography 27
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into imagejunkies it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Susan Sontag Photography 24

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