Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Reality has always been interpreted through the reports given by images; and philosophers since Plato have tried to loosen our dependence on images by evoking the standard of an image-free way of apprehending the real.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

1:08pm on September 20, 2024.


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