Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is t…

Susan Sontag
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.5, Macmillan
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Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.5, Macmillan

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