Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

between the defense of photography as a superior means of self-expression and the praise of photography as a superior way of putting the self at reality’s service there is not as much difference as might appear. Both presuppose that photography provides a unique system of disclosures: that it shows us reality as we had not seen it before.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

2:22pm on September 12, 2024.


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