Tag: Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (via mastersofphotography)

I just picked this up from the library. It was sitting there on a shelf as I walked by, headed to meet the book I was there to see.

Surely a sign, yeah?

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (via mastersofphotography)

I just picked this up from the library. It was sitting there on a shelf as I walked by, headed to meet the book I was there to see.

Surely a sign, yeah?