julochka:
32:365 "photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy." -- susan sontag
julochka:
33:365 "the photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects - to fight against boredom." - susan sontag
julochka:
35 (take 2):365 "it would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph." - susan sontag
julochka:
36:365 "like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive." - susan sontag
julochka:
38:365 "photographing, and thereby redeeming the homely, trite, and humble is also an ingenious means of individual expression." - susan sontag
julochka:
40:365 "the lure of photographs, their hold on us, is that they offer at one and the same time a connoisseur's relation to the world and a promiscuous acceptance of the world." - susan sontag
julochka:
41:365 "'one of the things i felt i suffered from as a kid,' Arbus wrote, 'was that i never felt adversity." - susan sontag
julochka:
42:365 "the proliferation of photographs is ultimately an affirmation of kitsch." - susan sontag
julochka:
44:365 "photographs, when they get scrofulous, tarnished, stained, cracked, faded still look good; do often look better." - susan sontag
julochka:
45:365 "a photograph is only a fragment, and with the passage of time its moorings come unstuck." - susan sontag
julochka:
46:365 "the camera's rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses." - susan sontag
julochka:
48:365 "the arbitrariness of photographic evidence indicates that reality is fundamentally unclassifiable." - susan sontag
julochka:
49:365 "photographic seeing meant an aptitude for discovering beauty in what everybody sees but neglects as too ordinary." - susan sontag
julochka:
50:365 "the camera has the power to catch so-called normal people in such a way as to make them look abnormal." - susan sontag
julochka:
52:365 "photography has the unappealing reputation of being the most realistic, therefore facile, of the mimetic arts." - susan sontag
julochka:
53:365 "certain glories of nature, for example, have been all but abandoned to the indefatigable attentions of amateur camera buffs." - susan sontag
julochka:
54:365 "the primitive notion of the efficacy of images presumes that images possess the qualities of real things, but our inclination is to attribute to real things the qualities of an image." - susan sontag
julochka:
59:365 "photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is." - susan sontag