"I have not photographed everything yet,
but it is on my list.“




Nobody exclaims: ”Isn’t that ugly! I must take a picture of it” Susan Sonntag; The Heroism of Vision


So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”
Susan Sonntag; The Heroism of Vision


“A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it -
by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic.”
Susan Sonntag; In Plato’s Cave


“The news that the camera could lie made getting photographed much more popular.”
Susan Sonntag; The Heroism of Vision
Most tourists feel compelled to put the camera between themselves and whatever is remarkable that they encounter.”
Susan Sonntag; In Plato’s Cave 1977



