The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoite…

Susan Sontag
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The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.50, Macmillan
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