It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt
Susan SontagThe public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
Susan SontagTime eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
Susan SontagOurs is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
Susan Sontag