Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Photography has the unappealing reputation of being the most realistic, therefore facile, of the mimetic arts. In fact, it is the one art that has managed to carry out the grandiose, century-old threats of a Surrealist takeover of the modern sensibility, while most of the pedigreed candidates have dropped out of the race.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

5:36pm on August 31, 2024.


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