Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Susan Sontag


"Photography is the only major art in which professional training and years of experience do not confer an insuperable advantage over the untrained an inexperienced"P.24

"We want the photographer to be a spy in the house of love and of death, and those being photographed to be unaware of
the camera, "off guard." No sophisticated sense of what photography is or can be will ever weaken the satisfactions of a picture of an unexpected event seized in mid-action by an alert photographer."P.44

"To aim at the perpetuation of memories means, inevitably, that one has undertaken the task of continually renewing, of creating, memories—aided, above all, by the impress of iconic photographs."P.69

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