Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

12:41pm on August 20, 2024.


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