Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm fo…

Susan Sontag
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.78, Macmillan
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