The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.