Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

The camera can be lenient; it is also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

3:59pm on September 11, 2024.


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