Photography Quotes — Page 40

Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”

Photography Events Turns

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.”

Ideas Two Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.”

Home Photography Travel

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.”

Photography Photograph Ugliness

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.”

People Photography Chinese

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.”

People Thinking Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.”

Photography Ethics Grammar

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.”

Art Self Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.”

Mean Art Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.”

Art Photography Purpose

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.”

Self Reality Photography

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.”

World Photography Heroic

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