Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Buñuel, when asked once why he made movies, said that it was “to show that this is not the best of all possible worlds.” Arbus took photographs to show something simpler—that there is another world.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

9:58am on August 22, 2024.


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