A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
SUSAN SONTAGLove dies because its birth was an error.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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