Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that ma…

Susan Sontag
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Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.
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