The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But i…

Susan Sontag
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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 Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.93, Macmillan
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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 Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.93, Macmillan

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