As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.
Susan SontagIt's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.
Susan SontagMost people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan SontagThe camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag