To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
Susan SontagImages anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.
Susan SontagThe capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.
Susan Sontag