Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furn…

Susan Sontag
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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.62, Macmillan
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