Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture real…

Susan Sontag
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Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.8, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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