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Susan Sontag
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.22, Macmillan
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.124, Macmillan
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.22, Macmillan

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