The omnipresence of photographs has an incalculable effect on our ethical
sensibility. By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of
images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it
really is. 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 image-junkies; it is the most
irresistible form of mental pollution.
