Quoting Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

The world is “one” not because it is united but because a tour of its diverse contents does not reveal conflict but only an even more astounding diversity. This spurious unity of the world is effected by translating its contents into images. Images are always compatible, or can be made compatible, even when the realities they depict are not.Photography does not simply reproduce the real, it recycles it—a key procedure of a modern society.

— Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977

4:20pm on October 4, 2024 from Turkey.


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