All SUSAN SONTAG Quotes about “Photography”

“...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.”
“By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.”
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
“Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.”
“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.”
“To photograph is to confer importance.”
“Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.”
“In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.”
“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.”
“Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”
“The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.”

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