It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along.…

Susan Sontag
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. ✨ Susan Sontag (1978). On photography, Delta
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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: … ▶
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. ✨ Susan Sontag (1978). On photography, Delta

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