Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Freed from the necessity of having to make narrow choices (as painters did) about what images were worth contemplating, because of the rapidity with which cameras recorded anything, photographers made seeing into a new kind of project: as if seeing itself, pursued with sufficient avidity and single-mindedness, could indeed reconcile the claims of truth and the need to find the world beautiful.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

10:31am on September 10, 2024.


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