To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power.
— On Photography, Susan Sontag, Ch. In Plato’s Cave, 1977
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power.
— On Photography, Susan Sontag, Ch. In Plato’s Cave, 1977
