Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so mu…

Susan Sontag
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Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.6, Macmillan
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.61, Macmillan
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Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.6, Macmillan

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