Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate; and familiar things small, abstract, strange, much farther away

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

1:44pm on October 4, 2024 from Turkey.


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