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On Photography: Susan Sontag (1980)
To collect photographs is to collect the world: the look of the past and the reach of the present
Photography fiddles with the scale of the world, themselves gets reduced. blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked up
The photograph seems to have a more innocent and therefore more accurate, relation to visible reality than do other mimetic objects.
=> But it still imposing standard on their subjects => Similar to paintings => To carry message
Photography increase spread of the mentality which looks at the world assets of potential photographs.
Photography increase our self-consciousness
Photography gives people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal
Photography in Travel:
-Photographs certify the experience
-The anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working