It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad…

Susan Sontag
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.124, Macmillan
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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. ✨ Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag, (p. 212), 1966.
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.70, Macmillan
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupti … ▶
All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here. ✨ Susan Sontag (2007). At t … ▶
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. … ▶

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.124, Macmillan

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