Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

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.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

12:09pm on August 20, 2024.


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