Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

For while paintings or poems do not get better, more attractive simply because they are older, all photographs are interesting as well as touching if they are old enough. It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph—only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

1:24pm on September 18, 2024.


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