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“to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.” ― Susan Sontag, On Photography. 119 likes. Like.
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.9, Macmillan Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern.
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.” ― Susan Sontag. tags: attention , eagerness. 1523 likes. Like. “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
Collection of sourced quotations from On Photography (1977) by Susan Sontag. Share with your friends the best quotes from On Photography.
Photography, Photograph. Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.46, Macmillan. 52 Copy quote. In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible.
Jun 13, 2019 · Huxley-Parlour. But more unnerving was Sontag’s proclamation of the camera as a weapon. “To photograph people is to violate them,” she wrote. The more images of violence we see—of war; of victims of hunger or famine; or other injustices—the more immune to them we become.
For Sontag, this is most relevant in photojournalism like war photography or photographs of accident scenes. Sontag’s photographer acts as an agent of the status quo and reinforces sentiment around it.
Quotes from Susan Sontag's On Photography. Learn the important quotes in On Photography and the chapters they're from, including why they're important and what they mean in the context of the book.
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s.
Jan 1, 1973 · Susan Sontag's incredible, penetrating critique of photography doesn't just cast into doubt the value of the activity of taking a photograph, but it posits some of the irrevocable changes that the advent of this technology has had on our world and how we experience it.
