A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an inte…

Susan Sontag
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. ✨ New York Review of Books 23 June 1977
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. ✨ New York Review of Books 23 June 1977

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