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Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.6, Macmillan
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making. ✨ Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). Barthes: … ▶
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Phot … ▶
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community. ✨ Susan S … ▶

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