Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

The urge to take photographs is in principle an indiscriminate one, for the practice of photography is now identified with the idea that everything in the world could be made interesting through the camera. But this quality of being interesting, like that of manifesting humanity, is an empty one.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

2:09pm on September 12, 2024.


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