As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the ph…

Susan Sontag
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As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.9, Macmillan
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