Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photograp…

Susan Sontag
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Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.24, Macmillan
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