In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the …

Susan Sontag
253 citations
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
Time
22

More Author Quotes

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gr … ▶
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste. ✨ Susan S … ▶
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling. ✨ Susan Sontag (2012). As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980, p.27, Macmillan
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden ar … ▶

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

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes