Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

The error of the Surrealist militants was to imagine the surreal to be something universal, that is, a matter of psychology, whereas it turns out to be what is most local, ethnic, class-bound, dated.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

6:52pm on August 31, 2024.


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