Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, ev…

Susan Sontag
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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
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