Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Weston’s assertion that “photography has opened the blinds to a new world vision” seems typical of the overoxygenated hopes of modernism in all the arts during the first third of the century—hopes since abandoned.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

8:19am on September 11, 2024.


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